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Bug#1129069: live-task-gnome: Don't install extra language support apps

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Control: affects -1 + debian-live

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 at 09:55:37 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>The Debian Live GNOME ISO includes many more apps than are included in
>the official Debian installer when you choose GNOME. These additional
>apps show in the Activities Overview and create a much more cluttered
>layout. This has led some people to avoid Debian GNOME because it
>feels "bloated" to them, not realizing that the Live ISO is very
>different than the non-Live version.
...
>Because of this issue's high impact for Debian GNOME, I want to do a
>Stable Update with this change to fix future Debian 13 point releases.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Trixie_r3 has a 
couple of errata which would be fixed by this change. Cc'ing debian-cd 
to keep this on the radar of the team that tests live images, so that 
after this is fixed, the next point release test can verify that the 
change has really taken effect.

>- debian-reference-common. This avoids a Debian Reference .desktop
>which opens the browser with links to local copies of Debian Reference
>but only in Italian and Spanish.

This is in the live image errata, and is https://bugs.debian.org/1110658

>- Debian's ibus-anthy includes an autostart .desktop which sets the
>default input method to Japanese (Anthy). As long as this package does
>that, it is inappropriate for inclusion in Debian Live GNOME.

This is one of the live image errata noted during testing but doesn't 
seem to have a bug number at the moment. Thank you for diagnosing why 
this happens!

I agree that it would be better to have Anthy *available*, but without 
it being the default.

>- fcitx5 adds 3 launchers to the default top level Activities
>Overview. Many years ago, GNOME decided to integrate only ibus for
>input methods. fcitx5 also pulls in Qt which is otherwise unnecessary
>for Debian GNOME.

This isn't in the errata but seems like https://bugs.debian.org/1083199

>Other Info
>----------

>All of the extra language support packages are installed as part of
>the Live install for everyone, even though most people won't need all
>of them.

This is https://bugs.debian.org/1020940, I think.

     smcv

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Bug#1129069: live-task-gnome: Don't install extra language support apps Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2026-02-26 17:50 +0100
  Bug#1129069: live-task-gnome: Don't install extra language support apps Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org> - 2026-02-26 20:30 +0100
  Bug#1129069: live-task-gnome: Don't install extra language support apps Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2026-03-01 11:40 +0100

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