[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#605128: installation-reports: install from usb key on dell latitude e4200 (squeeze beta1)

[Michael Schutte]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:50:17PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Dec  5, 2010 at 20:17:32 +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
> > I’m not at all comfortable with switching from console-tools to kbd
> > right now, though.  It feels like a bad idea to change the default from
> > a package which is installed nearly everywhere to the 13%-popcon kbd, in
> > the middle of a freeze.  I’m really annoyed at myself for not pushing
> > this long-needed transition right after the release of Lenny, as I had
> > originally planned.
> > 
> As long as console-tools recommends console-data and console-common that
> doesn't seem workable.  Or can we switch those to console-setup |
> console-data, console-setup | console-common?

I believe we can.  Just like kbd’s, console-tools’s primary purpose is
to provide utilities, so it doesn’t really require data files anyway.
So, if I’m not missing anything,

  console-tools:
    Recommends: console-setup | console-data, console-setup | console-common

  kbd:
    Depends: console-setup | console-common
    Recommends: console-setup | console-data

seems like the smallest fix to do the job.  The splashy and
brdesktop-common package also pull in console-common and console-data,
respectively, but I suppose we can ignore this for now.

Is there something I don’t know about console-common?  It should be
completely superseded by console-setup, and a quick look at the package
appears to prove this (the init script quits right away if setupcon is
present, which makes the install-keymap binary irrelevant, and
kbd-config is just a wrapper).

All the best,
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