Bug#851555: Blends install options removed from tasksel menu

[Ole Streicher]

Package: tasksel
Version: 3.39
Severity: serious
Control: block -1 by 846002

Since revision 3.39, tasksel limits the tasks to a predefined list in
the installer, which ignores the blends task selection currently under
CTTE discussion in #846002. The result of the discussion is still open,
and this bug is created to mark tasksel as a potential target of the
CTTE decision. BTW, I usually would have expected that all parties keep
the status quo during the discussion until a decision is made; trying to
undermine the discussion result is IMO improper and unfriendly behaviour.

The change (ba4e0289) also makes it more difficult for others to add
items to the installer tasksel menu for customized builds without a
technical reason. And any CTTE decision will anyway make the patch obsolete.

Best regards

Ole

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Ole Streicher
block -1 by 846002

Bug #851555 [tasksel] Blends install options removed from tasksel menu
851555 was not blocked by any bugs.
851555 was not blocking any bugs.
Added blocking bug(s) of 851555: 846002

[Holger Levsen]

Post by Ole Streicher
The change (ba4e0289) also makes it more difficult for others to add
items to the installer tasksel menu for customized builds without a
technical reason.

FWIW, we're using this workaround for Debian Edu now:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-edu/debian-edu-install.git/commit/?id=31db02a3be63725b903797382ee8861ec8f7daa2

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

tags -1 stretch-ignore

Bug #851555 [tasksel] Blends install options removed from tasksel menu
Added tag(s) stretch-ignore.

[Ivo De Decker]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

Post by Ole Streicher
The change (ba4e0289) also makes it more difficult for others to add
items to the installer tasksel menu for customized builds without a
technical reason. And any CTTE decision will anyway make the patch obsolete.

Downgrading this bug, based on the decision.

Cheers,

Ivo

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Ivo De Decker
severity -1 important

Bug #851555 [tasksel] Blends install options removed from tasksel menu
Severity set to 'important' from 'serious'

[Andreas Tille]

Control: retitle -1 Please enable hierarchical tasksel to support Blends in installer

The origin of this bug is actually #186085 which was marked done and is archived
without a real solution (unarchiving seems not to work these days). Here is a
collection of links to the topic from mailing lists. If you want to discuss the
issue please always CC this bug report:

Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/10/msg00113.html

Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer (very long thread about several years)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/08/msg00221.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/01/msg00116.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/01/msg00177.html

Hierarchical tasksel / Blends support (Was: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 release)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/02/msg00058.html

This is just a small collection of entry / important links. Please keep this bug
in CC for any contribution to this topic.

Kind regards

Andreas.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Andreas Tille
retitle -1 Please enable hierarchical tasksel to support Blends in installer

Bug #851555 [tasksel] Blends install options removed from tasksel menu
Changed Bug title to 'Please enable hierarchical tasksel to support Blends in installer' from 'Blends install options removed from tasksel menu'.

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