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

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Mon Aug 25 12:09:47 BST 2025


Hi,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 12:02:29PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
>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I think the "deprecated" is obsolete; kbd has been revived since 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console-* were created, console-tools is obsolete and gone but 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-* ?

Regardless of what you do, there should be information for the local 
admin which package is the way to go.

Greetings
Marc


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