[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#420914: console-setup: please ship KeyboardNames.pl and kbdnames-maker

[Colin Watson]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.15
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

It would be useful to ship KeyboardNames.pl and kbdnames-maker; the
Kickstart user interface in Ubuntu relies on these to be able to display
a menu of keyboard choices that can be selected in the installer.

I realise that kbdnames-maker is really an internal helper program, but
it's much easier for a Python program like system-config-kickstart to
parse its output directly rather than trying to parse KeyboardNames.pl
directly; any sane attempt at the latter would probably end up just
reinventing something very much like kbdnames-maker, so shipping it
seems reasonable enough. (I guess an alternative would be to ship its
output, but that's less convenient for Perl programs.)

Patch attached.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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