Bug#769616: tasksel: fails to preseed desktop on kfreebsd, hurd

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Samuel Thibault, le Sat 22 Nov 2014 01:57:41 +0100, a écrit :
> Steven Chamberlain, le Sat 15 Nov 2014 02:20:53 +0000, a écrit :
> > It was seen on kfreebsd and hurd that preseeding with:
> >   tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, desktop
> >   tasksel tasksel/desktop multiselect xfce
> > no longer works, a regressions since wheezy;  no desktop gets installed:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2014/11/msg00074.html
> 
> Indeed, it should now be simply:
> 
> tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, xfce-desktop

I however fail to preseed this and still let the user choose.  We'd need
this for accessibility, to enable MATE by default when braille or speech
was used.  I have tried the following:

debconf-set-selections mate-preseed.cfg

where mate-pressed.cfg contains:

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, mate-desktop, print-server
tasksel tasksel/first seen false
tasksel tasksel/tasks multiselect standard, mate-desktop, print-server
tasksel tasksel/tasks seen false
tasksel tasksel/desktop mate
tasksel tasksel/desktop seen false

After that, debconf-get tasksel/first etc. return the expected values.
But when arriving on the task choices, gnome is still the default... and
debconf-get tasksel/first etc. have become empty.  I guess I am missing
something?

Samuel