so it's less of a special case from how task definitions generally work.
* Key packages are always included in a task, and need not be explicitly
listed by the Packages field, although it's ok if they are.
* Allow package list programs to output the list separated by any
whitespace, not just newlines.
* Pass params from Packages: fields to the program that is run.
* Add a "list" method, supporting easy user-defined tasks with no coding
or overrides hacking needed, vis:
Packages: list
package-1
package-2
...
* Some docs improvements in this area.
- Renamed Essential field to Key, to prevent confusion.
- Implemented dropping of tasks that are missing key packages.
- Enhanced listpackages.pl with support for listing key packages.
- makedesc.pl too.
- Key packages do not need to be listed under Packages too.
- Updated tcl/tk to 8.4.
- Removed localces from language tasks; language-env depends on it.
- Changed around what is Key and what is not, more changes than I can
record here.
- Don't expand lsb package's deps, we want the whole thing or nothing.
- Added makeoverride.pl, which will generate an override file from a
directory of task files.
- Remove user-de and user-es, language-env superscedes.
- Back to just gimp for desktop task.
- If a task is not in the task desc files, but is in the available file
as a Task: line, do not display it.
* Added support for task description files.
* Read in /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc as a task description
file.
* Added makedesc.pl, a program to generate a task description file from
a set of task descriptions.
* Got rid of all the name prettification code since it is no longer used
anyway.
* Killed filterdescription, the task packages in woody actually don't
have that problem anymore.
* Don't move cursor to the right after a task is selected.
* Removed unused tasksel.man from source package (keep pod).
* Fixed an obscure bug if a task package happened to be the last thing in
the available file.
* Enable debug mode by default, but turn it off when building from the
rules file.
Aj's changes:
* Use "Section:" fields to break tasks into different sections. Have a
hardcoded list of default sections, with a defined order; remaining
sections get added to the end, in alphabetical order. Sections that
don't match "tasks-*" are ignored.
* "tasksel install foo bar baz" as a replacement for "apt-get install
task-foo task-bar task-baz"
* Increase the size of the "apt-get install" command line buffer.
Joey Hess