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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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Source: tasksel
Source-Version: 3.91
Done: Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tasksel, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Holger Wansing <[email protected]> (supplier of updated tasksel package)
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:09:28 +0200
Source: tasksel
Architecture: source
Version: 3.91
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
Closes: 1145003
Changes:
tasksel (3.91) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Team upload.
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* XFCE: Explicitly fulfil polkit-1-auth-agent to prevent pulling in cinnamon
(Closes: #1145003).
* MATE: Use a similar fix as for XFCE.
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