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tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems

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general
  • source: tasksel (main)
  • version: 3.90
  • maintainer: Debian Install System Team (archive) (DMD)
  • uploaders: nicoo [DMD]
  • arch: all
  • std-ver: 4.7.4
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 3.68+deb11u1
  • oldstable: 3.73
  • stable: 3.81
  • testing: 3.90
  • unstable: 3.90
versioned links
  • 3.68+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.73: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.81: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.90: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • task-albanian-desktop
  • task-amharic
  • task-amharic-desktop
  • task-amharic-gnome-desktop
  • task-amharic-kde-desktop
  • task-arabic
  • task-arabic-desktop
  • task-arabic-kde-desktop
  • task-asturian
  • task-asturian-desktop
  • task-basque
  • task-basque-desktop
  • task-basque-kde-desktop
  • task-belarusian
  • task-belarusian-desktop
  • task-belarusian-kde-desktop
  • task-bengali
  • task-bengali-desktop
  • task-bengali-kde-desktop
  • task-blendsel
  • task-bosnian
  • task-bosnian-desktop
  • task-bosnian-kde-desktop
  • task-brazilian-portuguese
  • task-brazilian-portuguese-desktop
  • task-brazilian-portuguese-kde-desktop
  • task-british-desktop
  • task-british-kde-desktop
  • task-bulgarian
  • task-bulgarian-desktop
  • task-bulgarian-kde-desktop
  • task-catalan
  • task-catalan-desktop
  • task-catalan-kde-desktop
  • task-chinese-s (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
  • task-chinese-s-desktop
  • task-chinese-s-gnome-desktop
  • task-chinese-s-kde-desktop
  • task-chinese-t
  • task-chinese-t-desktop
  • task-chinese-t-gnome-desktop
  • task-chinese-t-kde-desktop
  • task-cinnamon-desktop
  • task-croatian
  • task-croatian-desktop
  • task-croatian-kde-desktop
  • task-cyrillic
  • task-cyrillic-desktop
  • task-cyrillic-kde-desktop
  • task-czech
  • task-czech-desktop
  • task-czech-kde-desktop
  • task-danish
  • task-danish-desktop
  • task-danish-kde-desktop
  • task-desktop (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
  • task-dutch
  • task-dutch-desktop
  • task-dutch-kde-desktop
  • task-dzongkha-desktop
  • task-dzongkha-kde-desktop
  • task-english
  • task-esperanto
  • task-esperanto-desktop
  • task-esperanto-kde-desktop
  • task-estonian
  • task-estonian-desktop
  • task-estonian-kde-desktop
  • task-finnish
  • task-finnish-desktop
  • task-finnish-kde-desktop
  • task-french
  • task-french-desktop
  • task-french-kde-desktop
  • task-galician
  • task-galician-desktop
  • task-galician-kde-desktop
  • task-georgian
  • task-georgian-desktop
  • task-german
  • task-german-desktop
  • task-german-kde-desktop
  • task-gnome-desktop
  • task-gnome-flashback-desktop
  • task-greek
  • task-greek-desktop
  • task-greek-kde-desktop
  • task-gujarati
  • task-gujarati-desktop
  • task-gujarati-kde-desktop
  • task-hebrew
  • task-hebrew-desktop
  • task-hebrew-gnome-desktop
  • task-hebrew-kde-desktop
  • task-hindi
  • task-hindi-desktop
  • task-hindi-kde-desktop
  • task-hungarian
  • task-hungarian-desktop
  • task-hungarian-kde-desktop
  • task-icelandic
  • task-icelandic-desktop
  • task-icelandic-kde-desktop
  • task-indonesian
  • task-indonesian-desktop
  • task-indonesian-kde-desktop
  • task-irish
  • task-irish-desktop
  • task-irish-kde-desktop
  • task-italian
  • task-italian-desktop
  • task-italian-kde-desktop
  • task-japanese
  • task-japanese-desktop
  • task-japanese-gnome-desktop
  • task-japanese-gnome-flashback-desktop
  • task-japanese-kde-desktop
  • task-kannada-desktop
  • task-kannada-gnome-desktop
  • task-kannada-kde-desktop
  • task-kazakh
  • task-kazakh-desktop
  • task-kazakh-kde-desktop
  • task-kde-desktop (7 bugs: 0, 7, 0, 0)
  • task-khmer
  • task-khmer-desktop
  • task-khmer-kde-desktop
  • task-korean
  • task-korean-desktop
  • task-korean-gnome-desktop
  • task-korean-kde-desktop
  • task-kurdish
  • task-kurdish-desktop
  • task-kurdish-kde-desktop
  • task-laptop (3 bugs: 0, 0, 3, 0)
  • task-latvian
  • task-latvian-desktop
  • task-latvian-kde-desktop
  • task-lithuanian
  • task-lithuanian-desktop
  • task-lithuanian-kde-desktop
  • task-lomiri-desktop
  • task-lomiri-tablet
  • task-lxde-desktop (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
  • task-lxqt-desktop (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
  • task-macedonian
  • task-macedonian-desktop
  • task-macedonian-kde-desktop
  • task-malayalam
  • task-malayalam-desktop
  • task-malayalam-gnome-desktop
  • task-malayalam-kde-desktop
  • task-marathi
  • task-marathi-desktop
  • task-mate-desktop
  • task-nepali-desktop
  • task-nepali-kde-desktop
  • task-northern-sami
  • task-northern-sami-desktop
  • task-norwegian
  • task-norwegian-desktop
  • task-norwegian-kde-desktop
  • task-persian
  • task-persian-desktop
  • task-persian-kde-desktop
  • task-phosh-desktop
  • task-polish
  • task-polish-desktop
  • task-polish-kde-desktop
  • task-portuguese
  • task-portuguese-desktop
  • task-portuguese-kde-desktop
  • task-punjabi
  • task-punjabi-desktop
  • task-punjabi-kde-desktop
  • task-romanian
  • task-romanian-desktop
  • task-romanian-kde-desktop
  • task-russian
  • task-russian-desktop
  • task-russian-kde-desktop
  • task-serbian
  • task-serbian-desktop
  • task-serbian-kde-desktop
  • task-sinhala-desktop
  • task-sinhala-kde-desktop
  • task-slovak
  • task-slovak-desktop
  • task-slovak-kde-desktop
  • task-slovenian
  • task-slovenian-desktop
  • task-slovenian-kde-desktop
  • task-south-african-english-desktop
  • task-spanish
  • task-spanish-desktop
  • task-spanish-kde-desktop
  • task-ssh-server
  • task-swedish
  • task-swedish-desktop
  • task-swedish-kde-desktop
  • task-tagalog
  • task-tamil
  • task-tamil-desktop
  • task-tamil-gnome-desktop
  • task-telugu
  • task-telugu-desktop
  • task-telugu-gnome-desktop
  • task-telugu-kde-desktop
  • task-thai
  • task-thai-desktop
  • task-thai-gnome-desktop
  • task-thai-kde-desktop
  • task-turkish
  • task-turkish-desktop
  • task-turkish-kde-desktop
  • task-ukrainian
  • task-ukrainian-desktop
  • task-ukrainian-kde-desktop
  • task-uyghur-desktop
  • task-uyghur-kde-desktop
  • task-vietnamese
  • task-vietnamese-desktop
  • task-vietnamese-kde-desktop
  • task-web-server
  • task-welsh
  • task-welsh-desktop
  • task-xfce-desktop (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
  • task-xhosa-desktop
  • task-xhosa-kde-desktop
  • tasksel (35 bugs: 0, 14, 21, 0)
  • tasksel-data
action needed
Marked for autoremoval on 12 October due to django-oauth-toolkit, llvm-toolchain-19, sos, spirv-llvm-translator-19: #1084954, #1095866, #1124069, #1124098, #1133251, #1142869, #1145338, #1145981, #1146296 high
Version 3.90 of tasksel is marked for autoremoval from testing on Mon 12 Oct 2026. It depends (transitively) on django-oauth-toolkit, llvm-toolchain-19, sos, spirv-llvm-translator-19, affected by #1084954, #1095866, #1124069, #1124098, #1133251, #1142869, #1145338, #1145981, #1146296. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.
Created: 2026-09-12 Last update: 2026-09-13 19:30
2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 2 bugs, consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-09-13 19:18
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal
The packages that tasksel depends on which need a new maintainer are:
  • xxkb (#969108)
    • Recommends: xxkb
  • mueller (#903832)
    • Recommends: mueller7-dict
  • t1-teams (#1142877)
    • Recommends: t1-teams
  • aspell-cy (#915445)
    • Recommends: aspell-cy
  • aspell-el (#915444)
    • Recommends: aspell-el
  • aspell-ga (#915443)
    • Recommends: aspell-ga
  • aspell-hr (#981056)
    • Recommends: aspell-hr aspell-hr
  • aspell-hu (#828943)
    • Recommends: aspell-hu
  • aspell-is (#915442)
    • Recommends: aspell-is
  • aspell-it (#866830)
    • Recommends: aspell-it
  • aspell-kk (#879869)
    • Recommends: aspell-kk
  • ispell-lt (#704968)
    • Recommends: aspell-lt ilithuanian
  • hunspell-kk (#879871)
    • Recommends: hunspell-kk
  • ifrench-gut (#1006643)
    • Recommends: ifrench-gut
  • scalable-cyrfonts (#1142528)
    • Depends: t1-cyrillic
  • ttf-ancient-fonts (#972991)
    • Recommends: fonts-symbola
Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2026-09-13 17:00
Does not build reproducibly during testing normal
A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!
Created: 2026-08-17 Last update: 2026-09-13 14:00
3 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal
vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:
commit 8a04f6e72a9efc65f1d999fe3e3fc0a13cf557cb
Merge: 864c6af 0ffc1aa
Author: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Sep 13 11:49:00 2026 +0000

    Merge branch 'rclobus/fix_1145003' into 'master'
    
    XFCE: Explicitly fulfil polkit-1-auth-agent (Closes: #1145003)
    
    See merge request installer-team/tasksel!65

commit 0ffc1aa99a18366adc122dba6dfd7d5c5d6997b3
Author: Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>
Date:   Fri Aug 21 13:46:27 2026 +0200

    MATE: Use a similar fix as for XFCE

commit e9018a1e020456bea9a0a9248bcbbd0edda8a179
Author: Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>
Date:   Fri Aug 21 13:19:08 2026 +0200

    XFCE: Explicitly fulfil polkit-1-auth-agent (Closes: #1145003)
    
    This prevents pulling in cinnamon


https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/installer-team%2Ftasksel API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.
Created: 2026-09-13 Last update: 2026-09-13 13:31
lintian reports 3 warnings normal
Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
Created: 2026-08-12 Last update: 2026-08-12 11:30
news
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  • [2026-08-17] tasksel 3.90 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-08-11] Accepted tasksel 3.90 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2026-08-09] tasksel 3.89 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-08-03] Accepted tasksel 3.89 (source all) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
  • [2026-04-09] tasksel 3.88 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-04-04] Accepted tasksel 3.88 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2026-04-01] tasksel 3.87 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-03-19] Accepted tasksel 3.87 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2026-01-03] tasksel 3.86 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-12-27] Accepted tasksel 3.86 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-11-30] tasksel 3.85 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-11-24] Accepted tasksel 3.85 (source all) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-11-21] tasksel 3.84 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-11-15] Accepted tasksel 3.84 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-09-18] tasksel 3.83 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-09-13] Accepted tasksel 3.83 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-08-13] tasksel 3.82 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-08-06] Accepted tasksel 3.82 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-07-20] tasksel 3.81 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-07-15] Accepted tasksel 3.81 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-04-11] tasksel 3.80 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-04-02] Accepted tasksel 3.80 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-01-14] tasksel 3.79 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-01-09] Accepted tasksel 3.79 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2025-01-05] Accepted tasksel 3.78 (source all) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-11-01] tasksel 3.77 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-10-25] Accepted tasksel 3.77 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2024-10-12] tasksel 3.76 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-10-03] Accepted tasksel 3.76 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
  • [2024-02-22] tasksel 3.75 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 53 56
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 29
  • M&W: 23 26
  • F&P: 1
  • patch: 2
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