Bug#1119018: tasksel: "Debian desktop environment" should default to gnome-core

[Paweł Starzyński <pawelek.starzynski@gmail.com>]

Package: tasksel
Version: 3.81
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: pawelek.starzynski@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I think that current situation in debian installer's tasksel stage, leads to confusion. We have de facto duplicate entries- if user chooses "GNOME"- it leads to full GNONE instal, the same if "Debian DE" is chosen. Moreover, it may be against one's intentions, one might think that when GNOME (or other DE) won't be checked, no DE will be installed, and in fact one gets GNOME if "Debian DE" won't be unchecked.

Many users preffer more minimal GNOME install and such move would address their needs.

Regards,
Paul


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii  apt                     3.0.3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.91
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-7+b1
ii  tasksel-data            3.81

tasksel recommends no packages.

tasksel suggests no packages.

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