Re: Bug#734717: tasksel not installing task-<language>-desktop - confirmed
Version: 3.53
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> I tested this with buster alpha5 netinst image, and I can confirm this:
> tasksel does not install the packages which are listed (those are Recommends)
> in task-german-desktop task (anymore?).
>
>
> I did two test installs:
> 1. install standard and lxde task with tasksel from within d-i while choosing
> German as language/Germany as country. This results in task-german-desktop not
> being installed, so for example firefox-esr-l10n-de and libreoffice-l10n-de
> are not installed.
>
> 2. install only standard task with tasksel from within d-i, reboot into
> new system and install lxde task with tasksel from there. The result is the
> same as above. All packages listed (under Recommends) for task-german-desktop
> were not installed!
>
>
> So it seems that OP is right and task-<language>-desktop tasks are completely
> ignored...
>
> This makes large parts of the tasksel package selection concept useless!
I tested this again with a buster netinst image, and everything is fine now.
So this seems to have been fixed in the meantime.
Thus closing this bug
Holger
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