Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: I think some of the stuff in console-cyrillic should be merged into console-common post-sarge; console-common is due for a rewrite: mostly to debconf' the font, etc. settings, but also make it more robust. I see that many

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
27 2004 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov : Is it possible to configure console font automatically and ask for keymap in second stage? Today I uploaded a new version of console-cyrillic where I changed the Debconf part in the following way. When the package is not installed for first time, for example

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Anton Zinoviev : 27 2004 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov : Is it possible to configure console font automatically and ask for keymap in second stage? My idea was automatically configure console font in d-i and ask wheter user want to use console-cyrillic to setup keyboard in second stage (as fix

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: I think some of the stuff in console-cyrillic should be merged into console-common post-sarge; console-common is due for a rewrite: mostly to debconf' the font, etc. settings, but also make it more robust. I see that many

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 07:07:07PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: Is it possible to configure console font automatically and ask for keymap in second stage? My idea was automatically configure console font in d-i and ask wheter user want to use console-cyrillic to setup keyboard in

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-27 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Anton Zinoviev : 26 2004 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov : Anton Zinoviev : Another difference (that made console-cyrillyc the best choice for the Cyrillic languages) are the debconf questions during the installation. Oops, now there is no such question for Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian :-)

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Sorry I'm a bit late to the thread; I think a bit of reorganisation of console-* would be a good idea, post sarge. (Note, with a freeze planned for July 31, I'm working towards fixing bugs on console-* packages before then; no disruptive stuff right now). I've posted some notes on plans I

Future of console-tools (was Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?)

2004-07-27 Thread Denis Barbier
[Alastair McKinstry] As there appears to be little interest in console-{tools,data} development upstream, I'm working towards merging stuff back to kbd. FYI I am currently discussing with kbd maintainer and will surely take it over very soon, but I will give it away if you want to maintain it

Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
It would be easier to get the console setup right during installation if all the console configuration stuff worked the same for all. console-cyrillic seem to be an exception. Why isn't the content and behaviour of console-cyrillic merged into console-data/console-tools? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Recai Oktas
* Petter Reinholdtsen [2004-07-26 11:57:29+0200] It would be easier to get the console setup right during installation if all the console configuration stuff worked the same for all. console-cyrillic seem to be an exception. Why isn't the content and behaviour of console-cyrillic merged into

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Recai Oktas] IMO, the current situation is not wrong, due to its cyrillic spefisic content it is something that should be maintained seperately. I don't understand this argument. With the same argument, we should have console-latin1, console-ascii, console-big5, and so on and so forth. And

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Petter Reinholdtsen : It would be easier to get the console setup right during installation if all the console configuration stuff worked the same for all. console-cyrillic seem to be an exception. Why isn't the content and behaviour of console-cyrillic merged into console-data/console-tools?

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Recai Oktas
* Petter Reinholdtsen [2004-07-26 12:49:04+0200] [Recai Oktas] IMO, the current situation is not wrong, due to its cyrillic spefisic content it is something that should be maintained seperately. I don't understand this argument. With the same argument, we should have console-latin1,

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Kenshi Muto
At 26 Jul 04 11:35:32 GMT, Recai Oktas wrote: * Petter Reinholdtsen [2004-07-26 12:49:04+0200] [Recai Oktas] IMO, the current situation is not wrong, due to its cyrillic spefisic content it is something that should be maintained seperately. I don't understand this argument. With

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:49:04PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The difference is only in the content of some data files, and how these are applied to the linux console. I do not understand why it has to be a separate package. The name of this package chosen by the upstream is

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Anton Zinoviev : Another difference (that made console-cyrillyc the best choice for the Cyrillic languages) are the debconf questions during the installation. Oops, now there is no such question for Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian :-) By the way, what do you think about bug #260227? -- To

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Recai Oktas
* Kenshi Muto [2004-07-26 22:00:22+0900] At 26 Jul 04 11:35:32 GMT, Recai Oktas wrote: [...] The difference mainly comes from the fact that each of the console handling packages mentioned above needs special treatment and we should leave this task to the most eligible developer, that is,

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
26 2004 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov : Anton Zinoviev : Another difference (that made console-cyrillyc the best choice for the Cyrillic languages) are the debconf questions during the installation. Oops, now there is no such question for Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian :-) Oops! I decided

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Then in tasksel I selected no tasks. I expected that only a small number of packages will be installed but what a surprise: the result was a system with about 1GB installed packages that contained even OpenOffice! This is a grave bug, OpenOffice