[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: pkg-kbd project on Alioth to maintain kdb Debian package

[Denis Barbier]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:52:49PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm, I did not receive it, but I cannot find my ticket anymore.
> > Can you please try to import your files?
> 
> Done.  It took me some time before I realised what command I have to use:
> 
> svn checkout  svn+ssh://zinoviev@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-kbd
> 
> After that I had to type my password several times before the checkout
> operation began. :-)
> 
> I've installed the files in people/zinoviev/console-setup.  This is a
> package that can serve as a replacement for console-data.  Currently
> it is not very well tested.  The user is not prompted for any XKB
> options and as a result the non-Latin keyboards can not be switched to
> non-Latin mode.  This is because I want to implement something more
> user-friendly than simply selecting from the raw list of all XKB
> options.

Hi Anton,

your mail to debian-i18n made me realize that I never had a look
at your package, sorry.
I played with it tonight, and it looks very promising.  I am
definitely interested in hacking on it, but I need first to
understand how everything works.

> This is the contents of the package:
[snip]

Maybe you could put all these useful information into your package,
say in a console-setup/HACKING file?
Another stupid remark for now: your package configures both keyboard
and fonts, like console-data.  IMO it would be much simpler if there
were two seperate packages, one for keyboard handling and another one
for fonts.  Is there a good reason to have only one package?

Denis