Re: Did new tasksel break Debian Edu? (Was: Accepted tasksel 3.39 (source) into unstable)

[Wolfgang Schweer <wschweer@arcor.de>]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 03:41:24PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I just noticed this upload, which I suspect broken the package/profile
> installation in Debian Edu, which depend on tasksel to install packages
> listed in tasks outside tasksel-data.

[..]

>  tasksel (3.39) unstable; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * Mention proper locations of *.desc files in tasksel's manpage, based
>      on a bug report and patch by Zakhar Volchak (Closes: #824877).
>    * Add support for DEBIAN_TASKS_ONLY to be used in Debian Installer to
>      make sure only tasksel-data tasks are considered (See: #758116,
>      #846002).

Yes, seems to break the installation _if activated_; for example

'DEBIAN_TASKS_ONLY=y tasksel install education-laptop' will do nothing. 

Wolfgang

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