The NEWS.Debian file says that users should move to console-setup instead of kbd, which would be fine if console-setup provided the same functionality. For certain things, it doesn't. Look at this snippet from the old init script:
# screensaver stuff setterm_args="" if [ "$BLANK_TIME" ]; then setterm_args="$setterm_args -blank $BLANK_TIME" fi if [ "$BLANK_DPMS" ]; then setterm_args="$setterm_args -powersave $BLANK_DPMS" fi if [ "$POWERDOWN_TIME" ]; then setterm_args="$setterm_args -powerdown $POWERDOWN_TIME" fi if [ "$setterm_args" ]; then setterm $setterm_args fi As far as I can see, there's nothing in console-setup that provides this functionality. At all. Is each and every user of kbd expected to now write their own init script that calls setterm with the right arguments? Why was this dropped without providing an alternative? -- Cheers, Marga