Control: tag -1 patch pending Hi Arnaud,
Arnaud Rebillout <[email protected]> (2026-03-18): > the file `hw-detect.finish-install.d/08hw-detect` contains the function > `detect_desktop`, which guesses whether the system being installed is a > desktop. > > The guess is simple: it's a desktop if either task-desktop or > xserver-xorg-core is installed. Note that some Debian derivatives (like > Kali Linux) don't install task-desktop, so it's important to also check > another package like xserver-xorg-core. > > It used to work well, however xorg is being slowly phased out, and > lately the Kali GNOME installations doesn't have xserver-xorg-core > installed. Maybe it's due to gdm3 that dropped its "Recommends: > xserver-xorg" in version 49.2-3. > > So we need a better fallback to detect a Wayland desktop in case > task-desktop is not installed. It seems that libwayland-server0 is a > good candidate for that, it's a dependency of libkwin6, libmutter-18-0, > sway, libwlroot-0.19, phoc, and more. Yeah, the situation is trickier with Wayland… > A merge request is available at: > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/merge_requests/17 … and that looks good to me, even if having a library might be another source of trickiness down the road (no ABI bump yet, but that's something that could change). Merged and uploaded, thanks! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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