Bug#756841: tasksel: --task-desc no more works
Package: tasksel
Version: 3.20
Severity: important
Dear Tasksel Maintainers,
acording to the man page, "tasksel --task-desc $task" should give a
description of a task. But all I get is an empty blank line per task:
abe@c-cactus:~$ tasksel --list-tasks
u desktop Debian desktop environment
u web-server web server
u print-server print server
u database-server SQL database
u dns-server DNS Server
u file-server file server
u mail-server mail server
i ssh-server SSH server
i laptop laptop
abe@c-cactus:~$ tasksel --task-desc ssh-server
abe@c-cactus:~$ tasksel --task-desc mail-server
abe@c-cactus:~$ tasksel --list-tasks | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n1 tasksel --task-desc
abe@c-cactus:~$ echo $LANG
C.UTF-8
abe@c-cactus:~$
I've seen screenshots where this worked in the past. I though don't know
if they are from Debian Wheezy or Squeeze.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.15-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii apt 1.1~exp2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-8
ii perl-base 5.18.2-7
ii tasksel-data 3.20
tasksel recommends no packages.
tasksel suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/tasks:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/desktop: xfce
tasksel/first: ssh-server, laptop
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