Bug#756841: tasksel: --task-desc no more works

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

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