Bug#759657: console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 03:21:22PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 16.12.2015 um 15:16 schrieb Anton Zinoviev:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:22:49PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >>
> >> Wouldn't be hard to add this check to setupcon itself.
> > 
> > Setupcon is a portable script that can be used on any distribution --- 
> > Debian or not, on Linux or FreeBSD, with systemd or without systemd. 
> > Although currently console-setup is packaged as a Debian specific package 
> > I prefer to maintain it as a non-Debian package.  Everything outside the 
> > debian/ directory in the source package (and this includes setupcon) 
> > belongs to the "upstream" part of the package.  We can not/should not 
> > ask from the upstream to depend on Debian specifics (such as the way 
> > systemd and initrd are implemented).
> 
> I don't see why this check would make it init system dependend or
> dependend on Debian specifics.

I was talking about the following check: whether initrd has configured 
the console yet or not.  I haven't figured out how exactly to 
communicate this information from the initrd to the main init scripts, 
but however I implement it, I suppose this will be Debian-specific.

Anyway, the things will work even without such checks, so maybe your 
proposed solution can be used unchanged after all...

Anton Zinoviev