On 12.10.2012 22:55, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
Thanks, Adam. That helped.What I'm unclear on: why is this applicable to the gnome-core package in particular, as Xfce is the default desktop environment for Debian now.
No, it's not. None of the versions of tasksel which have been uploaded to Debian default to xfce - the change was made in git after 3.12 and reverted for the 3.13 upload.
Regards, Adam