Bug#790955: 790955 - localectl list-keymaps

[Michael Biebl]

On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:25:37 -0400 Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fedora (and other distributions as well as systemd upstream) uses
> "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup" and "/etc/vconsole.conf"
> whereas Debian uses its home-grown solution with systemd and sysvinit.
> 
> So "localectl list-keymaps" cannot work. It could be patched to output
> an error; but is this work really worth it?

The main issue afaics is that Fedora uses the keymap files from kbd [1].
We do have a kbd package in debian, but it only provides binaries but
not the keymap data files.

The keymap files that are installed on a Debian system seem to come from
console-data.
console-data seems to be based off ftp://lct.sourceforge.net/pub/lct/
but is nowadays more or less a Debian-only solution.

One obvious difference between the  keymap files shipped by kbd and
console-data is, that kbd uses a map.gz file extension whereas
console-data uses kmap.gz.



Alastair, Andreas: I'd like to know more about why Debian uses the
keymap files from console-data and not the one provided by kbd.

If you can shed some light on this, this would be most welcome.

Regards,
Michael


[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/legion/kbd.git
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/console-data
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