[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#734164: console-data: should conflict with console-setup

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 
> anyway, i don't know whether i'm talking about console-data at all at
> this point, because things are such a mess. it's where i configured my
> keymap, in any case. previously.
> 
> open /etc/init.d/kbd and look for HAVE_SETUPCON.

I didn't realise this.

/etc/init.d/kbd belongs to kbd but uses configuration provided by 
console-data.  This is indeed such a mess...  By the way, if you 
uninstall kbd and install console-tools, then console-setup won't 
necessarily make the configuration of console-data ineffective. :)

Anyways, I am adding the maintainers of kbd and console-tools to the CC 
list of this message.  I think the best thing to do (in terms of 
maintainability) is to remove from kbd, console-tools and console-data 
any Debconf related stuff and any /etc/init.d scripts.  If there is 
something that the scripts of console-setup don't currently do, then bug 
reports should be filled so that the required functionality will be 
added in some future version of console-setup.

Anton Zinoviev