On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:25:37 -0400 Tom H <tomh0...@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 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?