base-config, kbd and console-tools

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

Hi,

is there any reason why base-config depends on console-tools instead
of "console-tools | console-utilities"?

It is not clear for me whether console-tools or kbd should be used;
the former seems to be unmaintained upstream but have an active
Debian maintainer, whereas this seems to be the opposite for kbd.
In a recent (01/2004) thread on the linux-utf8 ML (currently offline, so
no pointer, but Google should find its cached version) about problems
with UTF-8 and console, kbd upstream advised to throw console-tools away
and install the newest kbd.
Does someone have some experience on this topic?

Denis