Bug#1051968: libreoffice: Libreoffice on MATE doesn't install libreoffice-gnome

[Charles Boling <junk01-debian@boling.us>]

> You mean you have chosen "MATE Desktop Environment" in the installer in 
> the "task selection" (a.k.a tasksel)?

Yes; thank you for prompting me to clarify that.


> The "libreoffice" package suggests libreoffice-gnome | 
> libreoffice-plasma but indeed  the MATE task just does
...
> Depends: tasksel (= 3.73), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment, lightdm
> Recommends: gimp, synaptic, libreoffice-writer, libreoffice-calc, 
> libreoffice-impress, libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us, 
> hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, network-manager-gnome, orca, libreoffice-gtk3
...
> But that (understandably, leaving out Base etc) bypasses the 
> "libreoffice" metapackage (except that that suggests is not shown when 
> being installed by the installer anyway...)

Ah, that explains it!  Thanks for finding that, Rene. I was looking at 
pkgs and didn't even think to go up a level to tasksel.

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