On 31/07/2016 15:22, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > Hello. > The freeze date is about three months away and i'd like to know if > there are any plans about these packages before then. > > The main problem is that currently systemd comes with a partially > broken localectl, well explained here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00110.html > And in the resulting bug report: #790955 > > If i understand correctly, the core problem is that kbd doesn't come > with keymaps but mandate these to console-setup or console-data. But > both carry them in a path unsuitable for localectl. > > Console-data package was last updated in 2014, was reported obsolete > for a long time and user reporting bug to it are sollecited to migrate > to console-setup. For example see the preistoric bug #626680 (still > valid). And upstream looks definitely dead. > Why this broken package is still available? > console-data dates back to being a "common data" package when we had kbd and console-tools, supplying datasets needed for the installer and keyboards/fonts not available in kbd.
With console-tools dead (and removed) and kbd re-active, I am happy to see its remaining data merged back into kbd, console-setup. > Nowadays localectl from systemd coupled with kbd are able to cover the > main job of console-setup, isn't it? I mean setting up console's and > X11's keyboard. > So i wonder if today isn't better and simpler to finally drop > console-data, deliver a kbd package more closer to upstream (with all > its keymaps) and possibly adapt console-setup to use the keymaps > provided by it. > > Moreover, i note that kbd upstream deliver a vlock binary which Debian > doesn't. Instead Debian provide a separate and optional "vlock" > package, last updated on 2014, but apparently from a different source. > So i wonder if wouldn't be useful to deliver also the upstream vlock > binary with kbd. > > Hope to help. > > Cesare. > Regards Alastair McKinstry , console-data maintainer -- Alastair McKinstry, <alast...@sceal.ie>, <mckins...@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.
