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

[Denis Barbier]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:14:31PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:45:46AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe you could put all these useful information into your package,
> > say in a console-setup/HACKING file?
> 
> I am going to work on the documentation today.  You can ask anything
> about console-setup.

Great, thanks.

> > 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?
> 
> Maybe the keyboard and the font handling can be separated in two
> directories.  It is possible to create two separate packages but if
> possible I'd like to keep them generated by one common source package.
> I think this will be more convenient to the non-Debian users of the
> package.

I disagree, binding two unrelated packages together is always a bad
idea, this adds unneeded complexity which may discourage newcomers.
Just my opinion, of course ;)

Denis