Bug#642657: tasksel: "Standard" task should include bzip2
Package: tasksel
Version: 3.05
Severity: wishlist
Today I did fresh install of Squeeze on virtual machine. I used
netinstall package with Internet connection. I installed only base
system and "Standard system utilities". After rebooting, everything
worked just fine, including Polish locale (pl_PL). I had fully localised
system, but it showed english descriptions of packages (e.g. aptitude show).
After tracking that issue, it turned out I was lacking bzip2 package.
Without it, apt ignored i18n/Translation-* files from Debian mirrors,
since they are bziped. After installing bzip2 and 'aptitude update',
packages descriptions were in Polish.
It's not big issue, but it's quite misleading for non-English users.
Whole installation and running system is localised, yet package
descriptions are in English only. There is also no clear way to figure
out that problem is caused by lacking of bzip2 package.
I belive that this could be solved in many ways. Maybe debian-installer
should install bzip2 by default? Or maybe apt should use libbz2, which
is marked as important and therefore installed on most of systems? Or
maybe tar should recommend and not only suggest bzip2 (I belive that apt
installs recommended packages in default setup)?
Since I belive that tasksel is closest shot, I file bug against it.
Please reassign it to another package, if you find it more appropriate.
Best regards
Mirosław Zalewski
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.6.3-4
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.40
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-7
ii perl 5.12.4-4
ii tasksel-data 3.05
tasksel recommends no packages.
tasksel suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/desktop: gnome
tasksel/first: Standard system utilities
tasksel/tasks:
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