[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#443645: RFS: kbd 1.14.1-3

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:31:21PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> 
> I’ve prepared another upload for kbd

I uploaded it.

> I also thought about #443645 for a while, but then definitely decided
> against doing anything on it for Lenny. 

Regarding this my opinion is that by default unicode_start should not 
change the font on the console.  Nobody says that UTF-8 has to be 
accompanied with a large font.  For most users even the default VGA font 
can be used with no problems in UTF-8 mode.  On the other hand the users 
who need non-cp437 character set support know that they need to load 
non-standard font and it is not the job of unicode_start to do this. It 
is not the job of unicode_start to look in /etc/kbd/config, its only job 
should be to set up the console in utf-8 mode.

I suppose this needs to be discussed with upstream rathar than doing the 
changes only for Debian.

Anton Zinoviev