(Please CC me, I am not on debian-openoffice.) The desktop task includes openoffice.org, but since that package is only installable on i386, powerpc, s390, sparc, so is the desktop task. The real problem is that openoffice.org is arch all, and depends on openoffice.org-bin, which is only built for those architectures. Since openoffice.org _is_ available for all arches, tasksel tries to install it, fails, and fails to install the entire desktop task. I think a secondary problem is that the desktop task also includes openoffice.org-help-en, which is likewise arch all, so causes the same sort of problem. Some localised desktop tasks also include openoffice.org-l10n-* and -help-* packages, and problably fail to install similarly. I don't want to ship sarge with the desktop task not working on all arches; I can think of two ways to fix it: 1. Make openoffice.org-bin be in the desktop task, not openoffice.org. It depends on openoffice.org, so this should still install everything, and tasksel will skip installing openoffice at all if openoffice.org-bin is not available for a given arch. To make this work, I will probably also need to remove openoffice.org-help-en from the desktop task, and remove all the openoffice.org-l10n-* and -help-* packages from the localisd desktop tasks. 2. Make openoffice.org and all the -help-* and -l10n-* packages not be arch all, so they are not available on architectures where the -bin is not built. Then tasksel would skip OOo when installing the desktop task on such architectures. (Or some combination of removing some things and making others not be arch all, I suppose.) OOo team, is #2 feasable in the short term? Is #1 a reasonable fix? -- see shy jo
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