update documentation for task packages

README

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ packages. If the -t option is given, then tasksel prints out the command
 line to use to stdout instead. All other messages are printed to stderr.
 
 To get a new task added to Debian, please file a bug report on tasksel.
+Or, create a task package yourself, and then file a bug report on tasksel
+for it to be added to tasksel's UI.
 
 Debian derived distributions can add a new .desc file to
 /usr/share/tasksel/ to add additional tasks, or modify/divert
@@ -45,12 +47,12 @@ the packages you want to include in the task in the following lines.
 All Key packages will be also be selected for installation when a task is
 installed.
 
-In Debian, we mostly use the "task-fields" method, which is built into
-tasksel, and looks for Task fields in the control data of available
-packages, that list the name of the task. Another available method is
-"standard", which just installs all standard priority packages, and another
-is "manual", which, as a special case, runs aptitude interactively to
-select what to install.
+In Debian, we have switched to using task packages, so the task files just
+list the task packages as Key, and don't list other packages in the task
+(instead they are Depends and Recommends of the task package). Another
+available method is "standard", which just installs all standard priority
+packages, and another is "manual", which, as a special case, runs aptitude
+interactively to select what to install.
 
 It's also possible to define other methods, by adding programs to
 /usr/lib/tasksel/packages/. Then list the name of the program as the first

tasks/README

@@ -5,16 +5,7 @@ information to make related sets of tasks appear together.
 
 See the toplevel README for details about the file format. The files in
 this directory are preprocessed and may include comments by prefixing any
-line with a hash mark ("#"). Also, the Packages-list field is used in these
-files to list the packages that are part of each task, like so:
-
-Packages-list:
- foo
- bar
- baz
- ...
-
-List only real packages, not virtual packages.
+line with a hash mark ("#").
  
 Packages listed for different tasks (and within a single task)
 should not conflict, or the results will be rather arbitrary.
@@ -46,8 +37,4 @@ include details about what individual packages a task includes.
 
 Debian developers aside from the tasksel maintenance team may take over
 maintenance of tasks. Talk with the tasksel developers first, and then put
-your name in a Maintainer field in the task file you're maintaining.
-
-Note that while you may put non-free or contrib packages in tasks, they
-will not propagate out to the Task fields in the Packages files in the
-Debian archive.
+your name in a XBC-Maintainer field in the task you're maintaining.