[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: Ubuntu keyboard/installer plans

[Anton Zinoviev]

Hi Colin and the others!

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:36:02PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 
> It is however possible to create for all XkbOptions a small keymap.
> Then the concatenation of the basic keymap with the keymaps for all
> XkbOptions produces the necessary keymap.  The package
> console-cyrillic demonstrates this approach and it is easy to use this
> approach in the installer.  As a proof of the concept I will make a
> simple script that does this.

I've just uploaded a new version of console-setup that contains
experimental udebs that demonstrate how console-setup can be used in
the installer.  The size of all precompiled keyboards was surprisingly
small: only 64k (compressed) for all keyboard layouts, variants and
supported options.

I do not feel comfortable debuging udebs and thats why I also created
the package console-setup-mini.  Console-setup-mini has almost all
important functionality that the full-featured console-setup provides,
but it doesn't rely on Perl.  The udebs are complete clones of
console-setup-mini - this is the reason why these udebs contain much
code that is not necessary in the installer.

For those who don't have access to the NEW-packages queue, you can get
the source with:

svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-kbd/people/zinoviev/console-setup

Anton Zinoviev