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Bug#775364: debian-installer: Fails to install GNOME and Xfce at the same time using tasksel



Control: notfound -1 debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso

Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org> (2015-01-14):
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
> Severity: normal
> 
> I used debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
> MD5 (debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso) = e4293f3b05d7d4288d590a211e471ad4
> 
> I wanted to install both GNOME and Xfce. But that fails with the error:
>  Installation step failed
> An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again
> from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step
> is: Select and install software
> 
> 
> I tried again with the daily built image (for 14 January 2015) and the
> problem is still present.
> 
> The /var/log/syslog file contains:
> [...]
> Jan 14 17:16:37 pkgsel: starting tasksel
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Reading package lists...
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Building dependency tree...
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Reading state information...
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target:  task-gnome-desktop : Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target:                       Recommends: gnome but it is not going to be installed
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: E
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: : 
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> Jan 14 17:21:59 in-target: tasksel: apt-get failed (100)
> 
> 
> I can install Xfce if I unselect GNOME. I guess there is a conflict
> between gnome-core and task-xfce-desktop

I'm not sure this makes sense to keep track of this bug report through
the debian-installer package; maybe installation-reports… Anyway, can be
trivially reproduced in a minimal jessie chroot with:
  apt-get install task-xfce-desktop task-gnome-desktop

and indeed, toying with gnome-core:
  apt-get install task-xfce-desktop gnome-core
→ gnome-core : Depends: evince (>= 3.14) but it is not going to be installed

Presumably that's some fun related to the gnome/regular vs. gtk-only
versions of evince(-gtk).

And indeed gnome-core depends on evince (>= 3.14), while
task-xfce-desktop recommends evince-gtk.

It looks to me that the latter should recommend evince-gtk | evince
instead? I'm happy to take someone else's opinion.


Mraw,
KiBi.

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