regenerate Ubuntu GNOME tasks

[Tim Lunn]

regenerate tasks to point at the newly renamed meta package vanilla-gnome-desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: tasksel (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 30 13:24:50 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-27 (490 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160509)
SourcePackage: tasksel
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-05 (55 days ago)

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

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[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I think this patch is more complete.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The package in the unapproved queue appears to have a spurious replace-ubuntu-vanilla-gnome.debdiff in the source.

I am also unclear on the overall rationale for this change. My understanding is that ubuntu-gnome is being considered an alias for ubuntu going forward, and that ubuntu-gnome will not be producing images for Ubuntu 17.10; but in that case, why do we want vanilla-gnome to be a top-level option in tasksel?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Steve, feel free to reject that upload with the obvious mistake.

Ubuntu GNOME has used a tasksel feature as part of its documentation for a while and it would be nice if that feature continued to exist. We'd like the ability to run
sudo apt install vanilla-gnome-desktop^
(note the trailing ^ ) to be able to make sure that all recommended packages from the metapackage are installed.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME#Upgrade
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel#Usage_.28alternative.29

And vanilla-gnome-desktop is for those who want all the core GNOME apps, the default upstream GDM theming, etc. that obviously is not a goal for ubuntu-desktop.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thanks for the explanation. I was unaware that registering tasks for the Ubuntu archive still required uploads to the tasksel package.

I've rejected the package from the queue due to the diff error.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 3.34ubuntu9

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tasksel (3.34ubuntu9) artful; urgency=medium

  * Replace ubuntu-gnome with vanilla-gnome (LP: #1720492)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:31:07 -0400