Package: tasksel Version: 2.66 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch *.7z files are increasingly common on Windows, since it's the best packer for win32 around, and is also free software. New users migrating to Debian would expect these to be unpackable without having to figure out what file-roller [1] backends they need.
This patch adds p7zip (and arj as a bonus) to gnome-desktop. [1] file-roller is what a newbie Debian user gets to run when she clicks on an archive -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.4.4-1 terminal-based apt frontend ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internati ii tasksel-data 2.66 Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded
--- tasksel-2.66/tasks/gnome-desktop~ 2007-01-19 00:15:20.000000000 +0100 +++ tasksel-2.66/tasks/gnome-desktop 2007-03-11 17:33:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -67,3 +67,6 @@ bluez-gnome # support for scanners xsane +# needed for file-roller + arj + p7zip