Package: task-gnome-desktop Version: 3.41 Tags: patch I am attaching a patch (in my next email) to drop some recommends from task-gnome-desktop. A few of these are already recommended by 'gnome' so they are unnecessary here.
A few others were intentionally dropped by the Debian GNOME team in preparation for Stretch so it was a bit of a surprise to discover somewhat late in the Stretch Freeze that those package decisions were being overriden for new installs: specifically synaptic and the libreoffice metapackage (specific LibreOffice apps are still pulled in by 'gnome'). On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, Jeremy Bicha
