On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:13:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Anton Zinoviev (an...@lml.bas.bg): > > merge 524233 524239 > > thanks > > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > > > console-setup and console-data both allow you to setup the > > > keyboard layout but they do not take each other settings into > > > account. > > > > Why this should be considered a bug? Normaly the users don't have to > > install both packages but perhaps there are many reasons why they might > > want to install them both. Console-data and console-cyrillic have > > happily coexisted for a decade and now this can continue with > > console-setup (exept that it seems console-data and console-cyrillic are > > going to become obsolete). > > > As the de facto maintainer of console-data, I agree with this. I have > to add that I unfortunately am entirely unable to implement in c-d > something to have it grab keymap definitions from > console-setup. Moreover, as both use different origins for the keymaps > (c-s uses X.org keymaps while c-d provides the old-style Linux console > keymaps, crafted by generation of Linux users over years....turning > into a giant mess), it is very likely that many keymaps do not > necessarily correspond. > > > I would be delighted to obsolete console-data, as many people > know. There are however several steps to achieve before that happens > (one of those being d-i uing console-setup).
Well, X now Depends on console-setup, so you're atleast going to get more people install this. > An I indeed have no idea about how to turn console-data into a > completely obsolete package and then offer users a decent transition > to console-setup.... I think there are a few things that console-setup doesn't do that atleast console-tools does: - calling setterm to set powersaving mode. - Set keyboard rate - Being able to set numlock on boot I got a little confused about console-data being the package that ask the debconf questions, but it seems that console-common is actually the package that set up keyboard. So you can argue where the second bug belongs to. I have no idea if console-setup does anything more than console-common / console-data. Anyway, my problem with the current situation is that there are 2 config files where I can set the same thing, and it's not obvious which of the 2 is going to win. In general, it would be better that there was only 1 source of keyboard layouts. And I have no problem going with those of X, but I have no idea if the quality of both are the same or not. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
