Sorry for the late responce.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:07:26PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
I see, thanks for elaborating. This does sound appealing, but what
should happen in an upgrade if the package into which we move the
conffiles (IMHO this should be console-setup) is not installed
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:54:45PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
I'm not sure if I understand this point. Would you like to keep these
old configuration files?
Not at all. It's just that the idea of leaving behind the
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
I'm not sure if I understand this point. Would you like to keep these
old configuration files?
Not at all. It's just that the idea of leaving behind the modified
legacy conffiles unowned never occurred to me.
Since there is
Hey,
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:37:08PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
I am not sure I understand entirely the relations between various
console-related packages. There are too many of them - console-setup,
console-data, console-common, kbd (not to mention the obsoleted
console-tools and
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
* 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
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
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:06:22AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
So, well, I'm very tempted to re-reassign the bug and then immediately
fix this myself in c-s git.
Well, go agead! :)
Since a long time I am not interested in arguing.
Breaks and Provides are the right way to handle a
anton,
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
This is what I would do if I was in your position: [...]
your proposal is completely useless to users in my position.
console-setup *does* break console-data, because its mere presence makes
the debconf setup of
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:09:51PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
This is what I would do if I was in your position: [...]
your proposal is completely useless to users in my position.
console-setup *does* break
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
Console-setup doesn't break console-data for the following reasons:
2. console-setup can be configured not to overwrite the configuration of
console-data.
nobody talked about overwriting. the phrase was made ineffective.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen 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.
reassign 734164 console-data
retitle 734164 The package doesn't make obvious to the users that it is
deprecated in favour of console-setup
thanks
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 08:38:32AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Well, that's long overdue. A way to really get rid of c-d is probably
to have
Quoting Anton Zinoviev (an...@lml.bas.bg):
I agree. I am not against removing c-d. What I don't like is to abuse
'Breaks' and 'Provides' inapropriately. We must not force our way to
the users, they have the right to install c-d even if the package is
removed from the archive. The
Package: console-data
Version: 1.12-3
Severity: normal
console-data appears to be mostly deprecated in favor of console-setup,
and is overridden by the latter if it is installed.
this isn't exactly obvious without reading through the scripts, and
leads to problems like bug #626680, ubuntu bug
reassign 734164 console-setup
retitle 734164 Please add Breaks and Provides to really replace console-data
thanks
Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen (oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de):
Package: console-data
Version: 1.12-3
Severity: normal
console-data appears to be mostly deprecated in favor of
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