[Pkg-kbd-devel] console-setup seams ready for release

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:36:15PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> 
> In that case, that makes localization-config pretty much obsolete. Or 
> have I misunderstood this? 

Currently the console-setup and console-cyrillic packages are
sensitive about the locale when asking Debconf questions.  This means
for example that if one installs console-setup under el_GR locale the
Greek keyboard will be preselected in the question about the keyboard.
I think that localization-config will become obsolete only when all
Debian packages have locale sensitivity when necessary.

I suppose that the deployment of console-setup will pass through two
stages.

Stage 1.  Console-setup exists in paralel with the current console
framework.  Bug reports from users with different configurations are
being collected.  Console-cyrillic becomes obsolete.  At first d-i
uses console-setup as default console configurator for the languages
that currently use console-cyrillic and for languages that currently
lack proper support on the console, later more languages can switch to
console-setup.

Stage 2. Udebs with precompiled keyboards for d-i are created together
with an udeb to configure console-setup during the first stage of d-i
(thats why the "config" script of console-setup is not a Perl script
but a shell script).  Console-setup is used for all languages.

My personal development style is not to be in a hurry.  So unless
there are enthusiasts to help I don't see stage 2 to happen soon.

Anton Zinoviev