Bug#410355: inconsistent behaviors between --task-packages desktop and install desktop
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.66
Severity: normal
When I tried to install the desktop task, tasksel went to install >400
packages, which I found surprising. When checking with --task-packages
that "install desktop" really installed the desktop task and not
"Desktop environment", tasksel outputted the list of packages of the
desktop task that I expected "install desktop" to install. However
remaining download time made it clear that tasksel was installing
gnome-desktop. I confirmed that with --test.
There are two issues: it doesn't seem possible to install just the
desktop task, plus install and --task-packages have inconsistent
behaviors. This is made quite worst by the fact that
debconf-apt-progress is not verbose about what it's doing and killing it
is bastard.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.4.4-1 terminal-based apt frontend
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.66 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
* tasksel/first: standard
tasksel/tasks:
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