Bug#304845: tasksel: desktop task has incomplete printing support
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.24
Severity: normal
This is my first time using tasks and I'm not very familiar with cups,
so pardon me if I have the wrong idea about how this is supposed to
work. I just installed a Debian unstable system (using a
debian-installer snapshot and changing sources.list to use unstable)
selecting only the desktop task. This resulted in the following cups
packages being installed:
gnome-cups-manager
libgnomecups1.0-1
libgnomecupsui1.0-1
libcupsys2-gnutls10
Since this doesn't include a cups server, the GNOME printer manager
fails with "The CUPS server could not be contacted.". It seems to me
that a desktop task should include working printer support.
Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.2.15.9-2 terminal-based apt frontend
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.48 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.01-17 Using libc functions for internati
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/first: Desktop environment
tasksel/tasks:
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