Bug#1042478: #1042478 Tasks missing in tasksel and its task-description file

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

d3vf4n@tutanota.com wrote at Sat, 29 Jul 2023:
> Package: tasksel
> Version: 3.73
> 
> There are tasksel tasks that
>  1. The command "tasksel --list-tasks" does not list.
>  2. They do not show either in the task description file "/usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-tasks.desc"
> 
> Some examples are the tasks "science-tasks", "electronic-tasks", "education-tasks", and quite a few more:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bookworm&section=all&arch=any&searchon=all&keywords=tasksel
> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bookworm&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=live-task-
> 
> Despite all this, tasksel can actually install them: for instance, "tasksel -t install science-tasks".

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The first packages.d.o link from above lists these packages (amongst others):

pan-tasks: PAN Blends tasks for tasksel

electronics-tasks: Debian Electronics tasks for tasksel

science-tasks: Debian Science tasks for tasksel

multimedia-tasks: Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel

junior-tasks: Debian Jr. tasks for tasksel

games-tasks: Debian Games tasks for tasksel

debichem-tasks: DebiChem tasks for tasksel

gis-tasks: Debian GIS tasks for tasksel

med-tasks: Debian Med tasks for tasksel

education-tasks: Debian Edu tasks for tasksel

fbx-tasks: FreedomBox tasks for tasksel

astro-tasks: Debian Astronomy Pure Blend (tasksel tasks)

hamradio-tasks: Debian Hamradio Tasks

blends-tasks: Debian Pure Blends tasks for new installations



These look to me as an early attempt, to allow blends installation from
our debian-installer (via tasksel). Is this correct?

Since there is a (new) working mechanism for this approach now (via 
blendsel [1]), the above packages might be no longer needed?

Or are they still used?


In every case, this approach now might be irritating, since it is based
on tasksel, while the new mechanism works via the new blendsel (so 
completely independent from tasksel) ...

I was not aware of these packages, when I developed blendsel, BTW.



Holger


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2025/01/msg00000.html

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