Bug#649575: task-german: I doubt the usefulness of dict in task-german

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Package: task-german
Version: 3.07
Severity: minor

Hi,

I doubt that the dict and trans-de-en packages should still be part of a
default German Debian install, e.g. recommended by task-german. For the desktop
there is gnome-dictionary installed by default and other users probably don't
need a dictionary or are either skilled enough to look up in one of the
powerful web dictionaries (e.g. leo.org or dict.cc) or install the dict package
on purpose.

The same is true for the doc-linux-de package, which contains utterly outdated
HOWTOs and FAQs with regard to system administration. Most of the documents are
obsolete and for the few pieces of information that still apply, I doubt that
doc-linux-de is the right package to provide them.

This is not about disk space or package quality, this is merely about keeping
the default Debian package selection as uncluttered as possible. I have CC:ed
the respective package maintainers for their opinion.

Best regards,
Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash