Am Aoine, 2004-02-27 ag 06:52, scrÃobh Denis Barbier: > Hi, > > is there any reason why base-config depends on console-tools instead > of "console-tools | console-utilities"?
Should work, but I'm not sure of the advantage: base-config almost always just gets run at installation, so console-tools will be chosen. > It is not clear for me whether console-tools or kbd should be used; > the former seems to be unmaintained upstream but have an active > Debian maintainer, whereas this seems to be the opposite for kbd. > In a recent (01/2004) thread on the linux-utf8 ML (currently offline, so > no pointer, but Google should find its cached version) about problems > with UTF-8 and console, kbd upstream advised to throw console-tools away > and install the newest kbd. > Does someone have some experience on this topic? > Ok, A summary of status and plans: The reasons console-(tools|data) still exist are: (1) A number of developers have threatened/promised to restart work "post sarge". (*) (2) Until recently at least, kbd was unmaintained within debian, and had less integration: console-tools, etc using debconf. Recently, Wartan has packaged more recent versions o kbd; I'd need to investigate its debianisation to check if (3) is still true. I have been reluctant to get involved in the kbd package as I feel a degree of redundancy on such an essential package is useful. Andries Brouwer, the kbd developer, is cordial to re-merging the packages; so I've been working with the plan of making the diffs between console-(tools|data) easily mergable back to kbd. console-(tools|data) now use dbs, so patches are maintained individually, to make this easy. I intend to do another "major release" of console-(tools|data) soom which just merges the common patches (common to both console* and kbd) back to the "mainline", keeping just debian-specific stuff as seperate patches, feeding patches back to Andries. I raid each kbd release for new changes and merge them into console-* ; I have yet to do so for kbd-1.12, which has some 2.6 kernel fixes, I believe. * Planned (post-sarge) upcoming changes to console-tools include using X keyboard maps, so we have a more consistent, comprehensive keyboard map set. We should be able to use the libxbfile library to do this. ( Especially with a change like this, I feel it important to keep kbd seperate as a backup while such a merge takes place, so if we f*ck things up, people have something else to use) > Denis -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
