People

• ColinWatson

• MichaelVogt

Goal

Improve package selection mechanisms in Ubuntu to improve flexibility and maintainability

Requirements

• Avoid hardcoding so many dependencies in debootstrap
• Consider alternatives and improvements to the existing metapackage
  • mechanism
  • Make it trivial to track additions and removals of packages from the

standard package sets

• Ensure smooth upgrades of systems based on the standard package sets
• Allow users to express preferences about tracking changes

• Consider ways to leverage high-level package selections to smooth upgrades

Agenda

• Simplifying debootstrap maintenance
  • Install a minimal base system, install Ubuntu's "base" on top of it?
  • Resolve dependencies in debootstrap? (cdebootstrap?)
• Tracking package selections
  • Review issues with the current metapackage approach

    • [https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4896 Bug#4896]

    • Users want to be able remove some packages, and continue to participate in other transitions
  • Consider solutions
    • Recommends
    • Tasks
    • Other alternatives

Pre-Work

• Review and summarize [https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4896 Bug#4896] and duplicates