Bug#397448: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#397448: console-setup-mini: redundancy with kbd and console-tools

[Anton Zinoviev]

retitle 397448 Redundancy of console-data and console-setup
reassign 397448 console-setup, kbd, console-tools
thanks

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:07:29PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 
> Given redundancies with console-common, console-tools and kbd, I'm
> wondering if perhaps making console-setup (and console-setup-mini)
> depend upon console-data (for the keyboard maps and fonts) and
> conflict with console-common, console-tools and kbd might be the
> solution? The idea would be to completely replace those 3 packages
> for setting up the fonts and keyboard on the console.

Console-setup (and console-setup-mini) depend on kbd or console-tools
because these packages provide the required utilities to change the
font and the keyboard on the console.  On the other hand console-setup
does not depend on console-data because console-setup uses its own
data.

Currently the package console-data asks Debconf questions about the
keyboard on the console.  One solution in my opinion will be to make
kbd and console-tools not to depend on console-data.  This will allow
the users to install either console-data or console-setup at their
discretion.

Anton Zinoviev