scripts), to allow special control of tasks during new installs.
- Add a new "standard" task which defaults to being marked for install
on new installs and is otherwise hidden (because removing it makes
little sense), and which causes all standard or above priority packages
to be installed. Closes: #301273, #298702
- Remove the -r, -i, and -s switches as unnecessary given the standard
task.
- Remove the -n switch since it was intended to be used with other removed
switches.
- Make the lang test only do anything on new installs, to avoid tasksel
looking at the LANG variable in everyday use.
- Rename Packages field in input task files to Packages-list to allow
really specifying a Packages value.
- Remove a trailing space in tasks/{c-dev,chinese-t,python-dev}
and update tasks/po/{de,no}.po
- Add tasks/po/fr.po. Closes: #204554
- Fix a typo in news-server. Closes: #204145
- Patched data.c to split multi-paragraph descriptions into
separate gettext calls. Closes: #203829
* Joey Hess
- Remove openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-* from German task, no such packages
any more, and I cannot find a replacement.
- Add a Norwegian language task from Petter Reinholdtsen. Closes: #205360
- Provisionally switched print server task to CUPS. We're not sure
which is the better choice, and continue to solicit comments on this
change. Closes: #205358
- Use apt-cache dumpavail via popen, instead of reading the often
outdated available file. Closes: #114721, #192306, #211072
- Doc updates for above change.
- Replaced talk of "this [meta]package" with "this task", and like
changes.
- In l10n tasks, s/-speaking// for consistency.
- Make all l10n tasks include locales. It's in base, so this is of
dubious utility, but some had it and some not.
- Changed short descriptions of basic-desktop and desktop in an attempt
to clarify how they're different.
- Added some comments here and there for unresolved issues.
- Largely rewrote Debian Jr. descriptions.
- Added menu to desktop task.
- Rejiggered mail-server, to be a general purpose mail server, not just
imap.
- Moved samba-server to file-server, and made that include nfs stuff
too.
- Added a print-server task, that also includes samba, along with other
stuff.
- Killed debian-dev(el) task, since it does not meet our task criteria
-- nowhere near 10% of debian users are debian developers (we hope!),
and probably not enough regular users will use this package to make
up the difference. This is my own package, so I'm willing to be
persuaded otherwise, though..
- Removed misc window managers from the desktop task. It is unnecessary
to list them there, since anXious will let the user choose.
- Killed the demo tasks.
- Went for consistent capitalization of the short descriptions. Just
capitalize proper names. I'm not sure if I like this effect, we may
want to capitalize the first word of each description too.
- Sundry other changes of little note.
* Replaced several occurrances of "task packages" with "tasks" elsewhere
in tasksel.
* Added -a switch, to show all tasks, even empties. Mostly useful before
we get tasks into the Packages files, for a global overview of how the
* Added lint check to makedesc.pl -- it will warn at build time
about tasks that list unavailable packages. This caught several
references to virtual packages, etc already, that need to be fixed..
* VERSION in Makefile automatically tracks changelog.
* 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