Package: cdebconf Version: 0.265 Severity: normal User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali X-Debbugs-Cc: sthiba...@debian.org
Dear Maintainer, Short story: task selection is ignored in speech synthesis mode. This is due to a regression in the cdebconf text frontend. The issue is easily fixed, and I propose the following patch: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/18 Longer story: the issue is easy to reproduce, just fire the debian installer (daily build), select speech synthesis install, and when comes the time to select the tasks, select something that is not the default. For example, I select '1 4 10 11 12', and then pretty much nothing gets installed. After reboot, there is just a console. `dpkg -l | wc -l` tells me that 256 packages are installed. No desktop environment. It's possible to see the issue with `DEBCONF_DEBUG=.` on the kernel cmdline. The offending part of the syslog: Nov 30 00:36:23 debconf: --> GET tasksel/first Nov 30 00:36:23 debconf: <-- 0 Nov 30 00:36:23 in-target: debconf (developer): <---- (passthrough) 0 Nov 30 00:36:23 in-target: debconf (developer): Got "" for tasksel/first The second line shouldn't be empty. I CC Samuel, as he reworked the text frontend lately, it will be straightforward for him to review and ack my patch (or fix it differently, at your preference Samuel). The issue was originally reported against Kali Linux: <https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=7999> Thanks! Arnaud
