Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.221 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
in the newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc we recently had a call for help because keyboard-configuration did not actually set the keyboard (see news:uaom6s$2daf5$1...@dont-email.me et seq.). The fact that keyboard-configuration only provides the configuration without actually applying it was overlooked and installing console-setup solved the issue. While the package description of keyboard-configuration clearly states "Other packages can use the information provided by this package in order to configure the keyboard", it is not immediately obvious which packages need to be installed to make use of the preferences. The the question "why is console-setup not at least in Suggests:" came up in the thread, which led me to write this wishlist item: Could you please add the most important packages that make use of keyboard-configuration as a Suggests: dependencies? I think 'console-setup' and 'xserver-xorg-core' are two candidates for that. I am aware of 'apt rdepends keyboard-configuration', but the Suggests: would be a quicker way and might also point the next user who directly installs keyboard-configuration in the proper direction to actually apply the configuration. Best regards Christian -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf-8 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-5 ii xkb-data 2.35.1-1 keyboard-configuration recommends no packages. keyboard-configuration suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.221 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii xkb-data 2.35.1-1 Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.36-9+deb12u1 ii lsb-base 11.6 ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2 ii kbd 2.5.1-1+b1 Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests: ii console-setup 1.221 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to: pn console-common <none> pn console-data <none> pn console-tools <none> pn gnome-control-center <none> ii kbd 2.5.1-1+b1 ii systemd 252.12-1~deb12u1 -- debconf information: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true * console-setup/codeset47: Guess optimal character set keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch console-setup/fontface47: Fixed debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16 keyboard-configuration/variantcode: console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16 keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de * keyboard-configuration/variant: German console-setup/use_system_font: keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de keyboard-configuration/optionscode: console-setup/codesetcode: guess keyboard-configuration/other: console-setup/framebuffer_only: keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false * keyboard-configuration/layout: German console-setup/guess_font: console-setup/fontsize: 8x16 keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key PC
