Bug#1145003: tasksel: Clean installation of XFCE (sid) pulls in parts of cinnamon

Hi again,

Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:19:59 +0200):
> 
> Am 21. August 2026 13:16:14 MESZ schrieb 
> >
> >the recent change to make 'xfce4' a 'Recommends' instead of 'Depends' has
> >unexpected side effects:
> >* The package 'cinnamon' get pulled in (which is not xfce)
> >* The default greeter changed from 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' to 'slick-greeter' (as
> >seen on openQA [1][2])
> 
> This is really unexpected to me.
> Do you know, if these (xfce and mate, addressed in your MR) are the only affected cases?

BTW: since this 'Change Depends to Recommends' is apparently not that trivial,
this approach is probably a bad idea in general, since it was a main idea behind 
this, to do this change backward and forward during release cycles in the future?

CC'ing Graham, as he initially requested this change.



Holger