[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#1110517: deprecation should be in the package description

[Alastair McKinstry]

Hi

Including Andreas as kbd maintainer (effective).

console-common is used to install console-data (recommended).

console-data includes some files that are/were not included in kbd 
(years ago). Is this still true? some people use them.

I think the "deprecated" is obsolete; kbd has been revived since 
console-* were created, console-tools is obsolete and gone but 
console-data and console-common have still some small utility and live.

Do we want to change that, or will we deprecate and remove console-* ?

Best regards

Alastair


On 07/08/2025 12:08, Marc Haber wrote:
> Source: console-common
> Version: 0.7.91
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> in 2018, in #790955 you wrote that console-common and console-data are
> deprecated. Hence the package description doesn't contain this
> information.
>
> Please consider adding this to the package descriptions of the
> deprecated packages. And, also consider them going away until we release
> forky.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 13.0
>    APT prefers testing-security
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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