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Bug#657904: console-setup: Shouldn't console-setup package put files in /usr/share/doc/console-setup?



Package: console-setup
Version: 1.75
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I edited /etc/default/console-setup, where it said "Read README.fonts for 
explanation". So, I went looking for README.fonts. The first place I looked
was /usr/share/doc/console-setup - the directory is empty.

"That's strange," I thought, "every Debian package puts at least _something_
in its doc directory."

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

$ locate *README.fonts*
$ ls /usr/share/doc/console-setup/
$ sudo apt-get install console-setup-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package console-setup-doc

   * What was the outcome of this action?

I'm up the creek. Can't find the documentation.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected to find README.fonts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.75
ii  debconf                 1.5.41
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.75
ii  xkb-data                2.3-2

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.13-24
ii  lsb-base  3.2-28

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.41
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-18
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-7+b1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd                     1.15.3-7
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.75

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
ii  console-common  <none>
ii  console-data    <none>
ii  console-tools   <none>
ii  kbd             1.15.3-7

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-1.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-13.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-14.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-15.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-2.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-3.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-4.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-7.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-9.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.VISCII.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/remap.inc changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded



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