Smarter overrides (was Re: [packageset] Please add an ubuntu-desktop exception for gnome-shell and gnome-control-center)

[Iain Lane]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 08:45:56AM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> I wonder if by now the "kubuntu and ubuntu-desktop" share is still
> relevant by now (since it's an official release, but not longer really
> sponsored by us the same way it used to be). Treating kubuntu like any
> other flavor other than ubuntu-desktop would also largely address the
> issue, I think... I'm reasonably certain I had played with the script
> enough to see that, I just didn't feel comfortable making this kind of
> change without further discussion.

That's not what it is (thinking that situation exists was a
misunderstanding on my part — one which I've had for years!). This is
coming from the desktop-common seed:

  https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/platform.eoan/desktop-common

xorg is in there and it has a chain (via gnome-terminal and then some
other stuff) that ends up pulling large parts of the desktop stack into
desktop-core.

It might be right to remove the special casing of Kubuntu for other
reasons though. The effect of that would be to allow the rest of the
flavours to share packages with Kubuntu, so their developers would be
able to self-serve more of their own uploads.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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