Bug#993668: CUPS is missing after a default GNOME Desktop Install
Control: retitle -1 Install CUPS for all *-desktop tasks, now that task-print-service is no longer existing
Control: tags -1 + patch
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote (Sun, 5 Sep 2021 21:48:35 +0200):
> Hmm, apparently you are right.
> (I was under the impression, that the libcups2 package pulls all the needed
> cups packages, but I was wrong here.)
>
> So we will need to add cups to all the *-desktop tasks probably, to
> make this work again.
> (Rationale: the print server task has been removed from tasksel under the
> assumption, that cups is installed with all desktop environments anyway.
> However, this is not true as it seems, at least not now.)
The attached diff should do it.
Holger
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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9cff6f6d..1f469e86 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -31,80 +31,82 @@ Recommends: laptop-detect, tasksel
Conflicts: tasksel (<< 2.67)
Description: official tasks used for installation of Debian systems
This package contains data about the standard tasks available on a Debian
system.
Package: task-desktop
Architecture: all
Description: Debian desktop environment
This task package is used to install the Debian desktop.
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
xorg,
xserver-xorg-video-all,
xserver-xorg-input-all,
desktop-base,
Recommends:
# One of the actual desktop tasks is needed to get a full desktop environment.
# The order here is significant when installing this task manually;
# when tasksel installs this task it instead selects one of these based
# on the tasksel/desktop debconf setting.
task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | task-kde-desktop | task-lxde-desktop | task-gnome-flashback-desktop | task-cinnamon-desktop | task-mate-desktop | task-lxqt-desktop,
# For use by third-party apps.
xdg-utils,
# Font with wide unicode coverage, prevents â??Unicode tofuâ??
fonts-symbola,
# mdns/zeroconf stuff
avahi-daemon,
libnss-mdns,
# desktop machines might not be up 24/7
anacron,
# Make sure that CDs etc can be ejected. May not be installed by d-i.
eject,
# wireless networking tools (they're more and more used on desktops too)
iw,
# sound
alsa-utils,
# For use by users, to elevate privileges
sudo,
# firefox is the most popular web browser at the moment,
# although both gnome and kde offer their own too
firefox | firefox-esr,
+# print system
+ cups,
Package: task-gnome-desktop
Architecture: all
Description: GNOME
This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
the GNOME desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian users
expect to have available on the desktop.
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
task-desktop,
# only depend on a very minimal gnome desktop, to ensure it fits on CD1
gnome-core,
Recommends:
# The full gnome desktop environment should be included if possible
# even if the larger gnome metapackage doesn't fit.
gnome,
# Package management
synaptic,
# GNOME support in LibreOffice
libreoffice-gnome,
# libreoffice is the best word processor / office suite at the moment
libreoffice-writer,
libreoffice-calc,
libreoffice-impress,
# make help menu work
libreoffice-help-en-us,
# make thesaurus work
mythes-en-us,
# make spellchecker work
hunspell-en-us,
# make hyphenation work
hyphen-en-us,
# we need a working network setup at least
network-manager-gnome,
Package: task-gnome-flashback-desktop
Architecture: all
Description: GNOME Flashback
This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
the GNOME Flashback desktop environment, and with other packages that
Debian users expect to have available on the desktop.
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