Ubuntu
tasksel package

Please add 'ubuntu-gnome-desktop' to tasksel

Bug #1299953 reported by Erick Brunzell
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tasksel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

We need to add 'ubuntu-gnome-desktop' to tasksel to ease installation via the netboot images.

I performed a CLI install + only 'ubuntu-gnome-desktop' and I'll include the apt logs.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: tasksel 2.88ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 30 19:43:45 2014
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tasksel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

See original description

Related branches

lp://qastaging/~noskcaj/ubuntu/trusty/tasksel/ubuntu-gnome
Colin Watson: Needs Resubmitting
Diff: 74 lines (+26/-1)
5 files modified
Makefile (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+6/-0)
ubuntu-seeds.pl (+3/-0)
ubuntu-tasks/ubuntu-gnome-desktop (+7/-0)
ubuntu-tasks/ubuntu-gnome-live (+9/-0)
lp://qastaging/~noskcaj/tasksel/ubuntu-gnome
Colin Watson: Approve
Tim Lunn (community): Approve
Diff: 73 lines (+26/-1)
5 files modified
Makefile (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+6/-0)
ubuntu-seeds.pl (+3/-0)
ubuntu-tasks/ubuntu-gnome-desktop (+7/-0)
ubuntu-tasks/ubuntu-gnome-live (+9/-0)
lp://qastaging/ubuntu/trusty-proposed/tasksel
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

Attaching some apt logs.

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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

from a quick glance, its only really unity-settings-daemon that is getting pulled in and shouldn't be. Although something else must be pulling that in...

tags: added: needs-packaging
Tim Lunn (darkxst)
Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)
description: updated
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

Purely from a performance aspect I know that the inclusion of 'unity-settings-daemon' does not break anything because it's pulled in with 'gnome-session-flashback' and I've been testing multiple user setups, eg; user #1 uses 'gnome-shell' and user #2 uses flashback w/metacity.

I've been using this mini.iso CLI install + 'ubuntu-gnome-desktop' for several hours and the only usability problem I encountered was the need to install 'firefox-locale-en' but I think that's common with most (or all) netboot installs.

The only other thing I see that could possibly be needed post-installation are the "account-plugin" packages but I don't use them anyway so I'm unsure.

I would like to see Colin Watson weigh in on this change because the last time I recommended a change to 'tasksel' things kind of blew up. That was shortly after Lubuntu went official.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Adding ubuntu-gnome to tasksel should be enough to fix this, indeed. This is one of those situations where metapackages don't quite provide enough hints to apt to allow it to resolve alternative dependencies in the way you want. "apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop" from a bare system still won't work well, but you'll have the task option which should.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.88ubuntu15

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tasksel (2.88ubuntu15) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Jackson Doak ]
  * Add seeds for ubuntu-gnome (LP: #1299953).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Point Ubuntu task update script at trusty.
  * Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, removing ubuntu-touch (which doesn't
    have Task fields in the archive any more anyway).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:49:20 +0100

Changed in tasksel (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

Many thanks to all involved. I think things look good having just performed an installation with the latest Trusty netboot image and selecting "Ubuntu GNOME desktop" from the tasksel list but I'm going to post some logs in case Ubuntu GNOME dev wants to follow up on this. Should someone notice a problem they should file a new bug report.

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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

Now some apt logs ;^)

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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :
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