Bug#1129195: tasksel: Remove hierarchical structure for desktop environments

[Pascal Hambourg]

On 12/03/2026 at 10:48, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

In addition, it appears that language tasks are selected only during the 
initial installation. So if a desktop environment is selected by running 
tasksel after the initial installation, then associated desktop language 
tasks are not selected.
"Base" language tasks use the "lang" test which marks them for install 
only on new installation. Sounds fair. Desktop language tasks enhance 
base language tasks and desktop tasks but enhancing tasks are marked for 
install only if all enhanced tasked are marked for install and not if 
they are already installed. I believe this is wrong and could be fixed 
easily:

diff --git a/tasksel.pl b/tasksel.pl
index 80f2a75b..8abc7264 100755
--- a/tasksel.pl
+++ b/tasksel.pl
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ sub interactive {
                                }

                                foreach my $dep (@deps) {
-                                       if (! $dep->{_install}) {
+                                       if (! $dep->{_install} && ! 
task_installed($dep) {
                                                $task->{_install} = 0;
                                        }
                                }