Hey,
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 07:42:34PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > anyway, i don't know whether i'm talking about console-data at all at
> > this point, because things are such a mess. it's where i configured my
> > keymap, in any case. previously.
> >
> > open /etc/init.d/kbd and look for HAVE_SETUPCON.
>
> I didn't realise this.
>
> /etc/init.d/kbd belongs to kbd but uses configuration provided by
> console-data. This is indeed such a mess... By the way, if you
> uninstall kbd and install console-tools, then console-setup won't
> necessarily make the configuration of console-data ineffective. :)
>
> Anyways, I am adding the maintainers of kbd and console-tools to the CC
> list of this message. I think the best thing to do (in terms of
> maintainability) is to remove from kbd, console-tools and console-data
> any Debconf related stuff and any /etc/init.d scripts. If there is
> something that the scripts of console-setup don't currently do, then bug
> reports should be filled so that the required functionality will be
> added in some future version of console-setup.
I'm generally on board with removing the kbd init script; it would be
conceptually much simpler (or indeed based on a concept in the first
place) to have the kbd package ship only the tools needed for
font/keymap setup etc., and leave the actual boot-time configuration to
console-setup for those users (clearly the majority) who want it. Right
now I can think of two points to consider:
* The kbd init script offers several things that console-setup
doesn't, namely the option to configure different fonts on different
consoles, the possibility to modify the keymap through a sed script,
the configuration of the screensaver through setterm from
util-linux, and the startup of other console-related utilities
shipped with kbd (vcstime, kbdrate, setleds). I don't know if these
features would be considered a good fit for console-setup; I suspect
that all of them are used very rarely.
* /etc/init.d/kbd will have to remain on upgrade if /etc/kbd/config
has local changes, otherwise some users who don't have console-setup
installed might be unable to log in. Things will continue to be
confusing for this minority of users.
console-tools is gone in sid, so I assume that we don't have to worry
about it at all any more.
Cheers,
Michael
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