[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#796583: How are people supposed to deal with the missing setterm calls?

[Marga Manterola]

The NEWS.Debian file says that users should move to console-setup instead
of kbd, which would be fine if console-setup provided the same
functionality.  For certain things, it doesn't. Look at this snippet from
the old init script:

    # screensaver stuff
    setterm_args=""
    if [ "$BLANK_TIME" ]; then
        setterm_args="$setterm_args -blank $BLANK_TIME"
    fi
    if [ "$BLANK_DPMS" ]; then
        setterm_args="$setterm_args -powersave $BLANK_DPMS"
    fi
    if [ "$POWERDOWN_TIME" ]; then
        setterm_args="$setterm_args -powerdown $POWERDOWN_TIME"
    fi
    if [ "$setterm_args" ]; then
        setterm $setterm_args
    fi

As far as I can see, there's nothing in console-setup that provides this
functionality.  At all.

Is each and every user of kbd expected to now write their own init script
that calls setterm with the right arguments?

Why was this dropped without providing an alternative?
-- 
Cheers,
Marga
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