One of the release goals of Debian Installer for squeeze is dropping the use of console-data keyboard mappings, to replace them by console-setup [1].
The main rationale for this is that console keyboard mappings provided with console-setup are the same than X keyboard mappings. In short, that would finally lead Debian to drop a major inconsistency we're having for years: different keyboard map systems for the console and X. Particularly, this would bring adapted keymap choices for many recently supported languages, for which no console keymap existed, while there are X keymaps. The "switch to console-setup" is a long and complicated process as it involves dropping a very longstanding D-I component (kbd-config) as well as console keymaps that exist for ages (provided by the console-data package). Packages have now reached the state where it is possible to test things out and provide some feedback. For this to happen, I built two "netboot" i386 ISO images (one[2] is console-based and another one[3] is using the graphical installer), where kbd-config has been replaced by console-setup-udeb and localechooser activates the use of console-setup on the installed system by default. I would appreciate if these images could be tested, particularly in various languages. It is suggested to test localized installations of a "standard" system, not necessarily with X, and check whether things work as expected on the installed system (particularly display at the console as well as the keymap used in the console). Please note that there have been *very few* tests of all this and it is then expected thatyou find bugs..:-) Please just don't pay too much attention to possibly untranslated questions at the keyboard config step during installation. That is expected as keymap-related strings, that belong to xkeyboard-config, will need a big translation effort in order to support all languages supported in D-I. That will happen later..:-) If you provide feeback, please do so by answering to this mail, keeping both lists CC'ed (but *don't* CC me as I read both lists!). Many thanks in advance for your help, [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ConsoleSetupSwitch [2] http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/mini-cs-i386.iso [3] http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/gtk-mini-cs-i386.iso --
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