Bug#933271: libreoffice: Should recommend libreoffice-gnome

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 933271 wishlist
thanks

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 05:16:31PM +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> LibreOffice is not able to read/write to GVFS mounts (GIO) if
> libreoffice-gnome is not installed. If I am not wrong, libreoffice-gnome is
> installed automatically only in the following cases when installing a Debian
> computer:
> - when choosing task-gnome-desktop (which recommends libreoffice-gnome)
> - when choosing task-gnome-cinammon (which depends on
> cinnamon-desktop-environment, which recommends libreoffice-gnome)
> 
> This means that when installing Debian with a desktop environment,
> LibreOffice is not able to read/write files on GVFS mounts on:

Wrong. GNOME is a desktop environment. In fact, it is the default
desktop environment.

$ apt-cache show task-desktop
Package: task-desktop
Source: tasksel
Version: 3.53
Installed-Size: 6
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), xorg, xserver-xorg-video-all,
xserver-xorg-input-all, desktop-base
Recommends: task-gnome-desktop | [...]
[...]

> - KDE (I think it uses KIO instead of GIO, so it might work in another way)

So why would installing -gnome help here?

> Could you make libreoffice (or another package like task-desktop) recommends
> libreoffice-gnome?

As shown above, task-desktop recommends task-gnome-desktop which already
does what you want.

Regards,

Rene