Re: Bug#906016: transition: gjs built with mozjs60

On 08/02/2019 17:21, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 at 16:48:52 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> I'm not sure how to hide a particular entry on a particular arch; I'm
>> not a tasksel expert and won't be one in the next 5 minutes. But it
>> seems to me the immediate concern was about the default desktop anyway,
>> which shouldn't be an issue in the first place because of this
>> default_desktop shell function?
> 
> The immediate concern is that gjs and friends don't migrate to testing,
> because the release team's migration infrastructure asserts that all
> task packages remain installable on all release architectures, and that
> isn't true any more for task-gnome-desktop on s390x.
> 
> Do you consider it to be OK that non-default desktops can be uninstallable
> on s390x? If so, hopefully the release team can relax that check.

My worry if I were to do that is that the installer would still offer to install
GNOME on s390x, and I don't know what would happen if one chose that (I suppose
apt would realise it's uninstallable and give a proper error, but maybe things
would explode).

So if we're going to make task-gnome-desktop uninstallable there, maybe the
installer shouldn't offer to install it, and that needs changes somewhere in
tasksel or d-i.

Cheers,
Emilio