Package: tasksel Version: 3.90 Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: openqa
Hello maintainers of tasksel, the recent change to make 'xfce4' a 'Recommends' instead of 'Depends' has unexpected side effects: * The package 'cinnamon' get pulled in (which is not xfce) * The default greeter changed from 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' to 'slick-greeter' (as seen on openQA [1][2]) I think that the dependency resolver had a hard time figuring out the best/desired set of packages. I've tried (in a chroot) to uninstall 'cinnamon-core', and that helped a bit in reducing the amount of undesired packages. Also explicitly installing 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' (which is the preferred package in 'lightdm') (and uninstalling 'slick-greeter') made the configuration more XFCE-like. I'll try to find the real cause. Bad: `apt install xfce4 lightdm firefox-esr xfce4-screensaver xfce4-goodies xfce4-power-manager xfce4-terminal mousepad default-dbus-session-bus xsane parole quodlibet atril tango-icon-theme network-manager-applet` Good: `apt install xfce4 lightdm firefox-esr xfce4-screensaver xfce4-goodies xfce4-power-manager xfce4-terminal mousepad default-dbus-session-bus xsane parole quodlibet atril tango-icon-theme` -> network-manager-applet tries to pull in cinnamon If 'xfce-polkit' is mentioned before 'network-manager-applet', this won't happen, and the list of packages looks good. (I guess because 'polkit-1-auth- agent' will then be fulfilled with the package suitable for XFCE) Note that xfce-polkit looks like the suitable package, but I'll provide a MR with 'mate-polkit', because that is a recommends on 'xfce4' (when I know this bug number). With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] Last good: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/562030, using tasksel 3.89 [2] First bad: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/562126, using tasksel 3.90
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