Subject: tasksel: Mail task selected although not all programs were installed.
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.76
Severity: normal

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Dear DDs,


after reading the changelog I wanted to try tasksel and saw that the
Mail task was shown as selected. Not remembering having done this I
deselected it and the following packages were removed.

[INSTALLIEREN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] nbsmtp
[ENTFERNEN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] exim4-base
[ENTFERNEN] exim4
[ENTFERNEN] exim4-config
[ENTFERNEN] exim4-daemon-light
[ENTFERNEN] mailx
[ENTFERNEN] mutt
[ENTFERNEN] procmail

I did not want to have mutt removed, which I installed manually, so I
selected the task again and now additional packages were installed.

[INSTALLIEREN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] exim4-base
[INSTALLIEREN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] libc-client2007b
[INSTALLIEREN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] libsocket6-perl
[INSTALLIEREN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] mlock
[INSTALLIEREN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] spamc
[ENTFERNEN, ABHÄNGIGKEITEN] nbsmtp
[INSTALLIEREN] exim4
[INSTALLIEREN] exim4-config
[INSTALLIEREN] exim4-daemon-light
[INSTALLIEREN] mailagent
[INSTALLIEREN] mailx
[INSTALLIEREN] mutt
[INSTALLIEREN] procmail
[INSTALLIEREN] qpopper
[INSTALLIEREN] sa-exim
[INSTALLIEREN] spamassassin
[INSTALLIEREN] uw-imapd

So I am wondering, why the task was marked as installed although not all
of its dependencies were installed (the last four were not).

Is this a bug or a feature, I am not seeing?


Thanks a lot,

Paul


PS: Now I know what use the -t option has. :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii  aptitude                     0.4.11.10-1 terminal-based package manager
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.24      Debian configuration management sy
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl       1.05-4      Using libc functions for internati
ii  tasksel-data                 2.76        Official tasks used for installati

tasksel recommends no packages.

tasksel suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  tasksel/title:
  tasksel/desktop: gnome
  tasksel/first:
  tasksel/tasks: Desktop environment, Mail server

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