Package: tasksel Version: 3.14+nmu1 While test-installing wheezy using the RC1 installer, I deselected the "Print server" task (because I won't be printing from this test installation), but I got the CUPS server installed and running anyway, so in effect my choice was ignored.
Specifically, I used the text-mode expert KDE installer and selected only the tasks "Debian desktop environment", "Laptop" and "Standard system utilities". (I encountered the same problem when test-installing the default GNOME desktop half a year ago. I reported it then in installation report #685681, but it seems that no one noticed, so I'm now reporting it as a separate bug.) I used aptitude on the installed system to find out what had happened: # aptitude search print-server p task-print-server - Print server # aptitude show task-print-server Package: task-print-server State: not installed Version: 3.14+nmu1 [...] # aptitude why cups i task-laptop Recommends bluetooth i A bluetooth Recommends bluez-cups i A bluez-cups Depends cups So it appears that the Laptop task ends up installing CUPS via the bluetooth package, even though the user specifically did not want to install the "Print server". (This laptop doesn't even have Bluetooth hardware.) Now "aptitude -s install task-print-server" indicates that if I had selected "Print server", I would have got the additional packages cups-bsd, hp-ppd and openprinting-ppds (and task-print-server). So, assuming that the PPDs are sometimes necessary, deselecting "Print server" in the task selection but selecting "Laptop" creates a system which appears to have a print server but does not work quite the same as if the "Print server" task was selected... I don't really know how this bug should be fixed. Perhaps the task selection dialog in the installer should indicate the effective dependency by auto-selecting "Print server" whenever "Laptop" is selected? Or should bluetooth Suggest and not Recommend bluez-cups? (And should bluez-cups or cups itself Recommend hp-ppd and openprinting-ppds? I don't know whether they are needed for Bluetooth-connected printers.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
