This is the second to last sentence from /usr/share/doc/task-newbie-help/README.Debian on my newly installed Potato:
All the standard docs are available if you install the task-doc package, so do a apt-get install task-doc now if you don't have the package installed. But there does not seem to be a package with the name "task-doc" listed by dselect. Looking at the various packages that are found by a search for "doc" in dselect, I can well imagine that the Debian maintainers failed to reach a consensus as to what dependencies should be included in such a task. Can some energetic experts recommend their own lists of what docs a newbie should have on his machine for immediate reference? There is so much out there! Thanks