I'm hoping to get a new tasksel into an upcoming stable point release to fix two bugs in the KDE desktop task. Apparently konqueror is basically unusable since it crashes on websites with flash. Removing browser-plugin-gnash from the task will "fix" that, and the only collateral damange is that gnash won't be used by iceweasel. It seems unlikely that any ongoing deployments of stable have flash as a critical component, and yet are relying on iceweasel using gnash for flash. So I feel this is a safe enough change to make. The addition of kdeaccessibility is not technically release critical, however, accessability is an important goal for Debian, and I feel fixing the oversight of not including it is an appropriate change to stable. The impact to the size of the KDE CD has been considered. Full proposed patch follows. Note that the other desktop tasks will still install the same packages as before; the common desktop task used to pull in browser-plugin-gnash, so it needed to be removed from there and explicitly added the xfce-desktop and lxde-desktop. gnome-desktop does not need it explicitly listed since gnome already pulls it in. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 96e128a..f941797 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +tasksel (2.88squeeze1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * konqueror-nsplugins crashes konqueror when browsing websites with flash. + See #549309 + To work around that, remove browser-plugin-gnash from the KDE desktop + task. Closes: #655841 + * kde-desktop: Add kdeaccessibility. Closes: #610790 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:22:59 -0400 + tasksel (2.88) unstable; urgency=low * Make gnome-core key, as of 1:2.30+7 it includes the rest of the stuff diff --git a/tasks/desktop b/tasks/desktop index c4533fe..0cc30a6 100644 --- a/tasks/desktop +++ b/tasks/desktop @@ -62,8 +62,5 @@ Packages-list: # sound alsa-utils alsa-base -# flash -- Note that gnome recommends browser-plugin-gnash; if this is changed -# here to a different flash player, it should also be changed there. - browser-plugin-gnash # ensure pm-utils is available pm-utils diff --git a/tasks/kde-desktop b/tasks/kde-desktop index c8dfb38..82b3966 100644 --- a/tasks/kde-desktop +++ b/tasks/kde-desktop @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Key: kdm Packages: task-fields Packages-list: +# accessibility support + kdeaccessibility # enable debian menus menu-xdg # package management. Need something here, but please, no kpackage. diff --git a/tasks/lxde-desktop b/tasks/lxde-desktop index 68e5677..3526334 100644 --- a/tasks/lxde-desktop +++ b/tasks/lxde-desktop @@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ Packages-list: openoffice.org-gtk # Support for scanners xsane +# flash -- This one is used only because it's the one gnome currently +# recommends. + browser-plugin-gnash diff --git a/tasks/xfce-desktop b/tasks/xfce-desktop index 6c441a8..030e16a 100644 --- a/tasks/xfce-desktop +++ b/tasks/xfce-desktop @@ -37,3 +37,6 @@ Packages-list: xfce4-power-manager # network management wicd +# flash -- This one is used only because it's the one gnome currently +# recommends. + browser-plugin-gnash -- see shy jo
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