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Re: Bug#1055016: override: tasksel-data:admin/optional



On Sunday, 29 October 2023 12:54:13 CET Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Daniel Lewart <lewart3@gmail.com> (2023-10-29):
> > Package: ftp.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: override
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: tasksel@packages.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org,
> > 855151@bugs.debian.org, 954090@bugs.debian.org Control: affects -1 +
> > src:tasksel
> > 
> > FTP Team,
> > 
> > #855151 - tasksel: should not be Priority: important
> > 
> >     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855151
> > 
> > #954090 - override: tasksel:admin/optional
> > 
> >     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954090
> > 
> > However, tasksel is still installed by default because of the following:
> >     $ apt-cache show tasksel-data | grep -E '^(Package|Depends|Priority)'
> >     Package: tasksel-data
> >     Depends: tasksel (= 3.73)
> >     Priority: important
> > 
> > Please change tasksel-data from:
> >     admin/important
> > 
> > to:
> >     admin/optional
> 
> It's probably safe since pkgsel's postinst features:
> 
>     if db_get pkgsel/run_tasksel && [ "$RET" = true ]; then
>         log "starting tasksel"
>         db_progress INFO pkgsel/progress/tasksel
>         apt-install tasksel  # ensure tasksel is installed
> 

I just ran into this issue too wondering why tasksel-data (and its Depends/
Recommends) got installed.
So hereby a +1 on changing it to ``admin/optional``.

Cheers,
  Diederik

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