[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#531478: /etc/{kbd|console-tools}/remap not supported

[Adeodato Simó]

Package: kbd,console-setup

Hello,

I think /etc/console-tools/remap was a very nice feature; I've recently
purged console-* from my system except console-setup, and installed kbd
instead because console-logs needs that.

I saw, then, that kbd ships /etc/kbd/remap, and the init scripts
supports it. However, that code path is not executed when console-setup
is installed, which I guess will be mostly always in desktop machines,
since X depends on console-setup.

I miss this functionality, and I don't think we should ditch it because
it's very handy (just doing a couple adjustments in a keymap, eg. for
keybindings). I also found no documentation in console-setup about how
to achive something similar within that package. Additionally, I'll note
that the feature works just nice, and it could work if kbd's init script
came after console-setup's in the boot sequence.

Anyway. Could we get console-setup to support an /etc/console-setup/remap
file, or get kbd's one to work?

Thanks,

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