Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: grave Tags: d-i The Task field overrides for stable are supposed to be based on the task data contained in the tasksel in stable. However, they seem to be being based on those in unstable, which results in newly installed 5.0r2 systems missing important packages including network-manager-gnome, pidgin, and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg. None of these packages have a Task: gnome-desktop field in stable, and all of them should. All of these packages were removed from that task in tasksel 2.79, which is in unstable. Additionally, pm-utils is in the desktop and laptop tasks, a change that was only made in unstable. hibernate is missing from the laptop task, which was also only done in unstable. Additionally, the kde-desktop task is likely 100% hosed, since unstable's version has been updated for kde 4. I have not checked 5.0r2 CD images to see if their tasks are also broken, but based on tasksel's upload date and when 5.0r2 was released, it seems likely they are. Ftpmasters: Task override updating is handled by an autobyhand script fjp wrote, /srv/ftp.debian.org/dak/scripts/debian/byhand-task. I don't have access to look at what's on ftpmaster, but looking at the patches fjp posted about this, it seems to update /srv/ftp.debian.org/scripts/external-overrides/task with the file from tasksel, and then run mk-extra-overrides.sh in the same directory. Perhaps the issue of keeping differing overrides for stable and unstable separate was entirely overlooked? Although IIRC ftpmaster had a different set of task override files for stable. Recommendation: Fix tasks, on ftpmaster immediatly, throw out all 5.0r2 CD images, and maybe try to deal with upgrading brokenly installed systems? Then figure out how the autobyhand script failed and fix it.. -- see shy jo
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