removal request for tasksel

[Brian Murray]

The package tasksel has a few serious bug reports, bug 1779645 and bug 574287, which cause a very bad experience for our users. Additionally, the Foundations team believes that we should not include this package with Ubuntu at all and that it should be added to the sync blacklist.

 $ reverse-depends -r jammy tasksel -a source
No reverse dependencies found

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

ubiquity had previously depended on tasksel but that was fixed in bug 1964026.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Ah actually we need to look in the following reverse dependencies:

 $ reverse-depends -r jammy src:tasksel
Reverse-Depends
* astro-tasks (for tasksel)
* blends-tasks (for tasksel)
* debichem-tasks (for tasksel)
* electronics-tasks (for tasksel)
* fbx-tasks (for tasksel)
* games-tasks (for tasksel)
* gis-tasks (for tasksel)
* hamradio-tasks (for tasksel)
* junior-tasks (for tasksel)
* med-tasks (for tasksel)
* multimedia-tasks (for tasksel)
* pan-tasks (for tasksel)
* science-tasks (for tasksel)
* task-cyrillic-desktop (for tasksel)
* task-cyrillic-kde-desktop (for tasksel)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

[ 2:51PM 10763 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/pkgs/jammy ]
 $ reverse-depends -r jammy -a source astro-tasks
No reverse dependencies found
[ 2:51PM 10764 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/pkgs/jammy ]
 $ reverse-depends -r jammy src:debian-astro
Reverse-Recommends
* science-tasks (for astro-tasks)

Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
[ 2:51PM 10765 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/pkgs/jammy ]
 $ reverse-depends -r jammy -a source science-tasks
No reverse dependencies found
[ 2:52PM 10766 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/pkgs/jammy ]
 $ reverse-depends -r jammy src:debian-science
Reverse-Depends
* science-viewing-dev (for science-config)
* science-viewing-dev (for science-tasks)
* science-workflow (for science-tasks)
* science-workflow (for science-config)

Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Looking at the debian-science source package it produces a science-tasks package for tasksel and a series of science-* metapackages. Removing tasksel from Ubuntu would require us to patch debian-science (at least I didn't look at all the rdeps of tasksel) and remove the science-tasks binary package which seems like a lot of work.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for tasksel (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]