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

["Alastair McKinstry" <mckinstry@computer.org>]

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 had made at
http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/console-plans.html

Two main bits:
As there appears to be little interest in console-{tools,data}
development upstream, I'm working towards merging stuff back
to kbd.

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.

Conversely, some of the cyrillic fonts/keymaps in 
console-data may be better off in console-data; the idea should
be console-common as standard, with
console-tools | kbd choice, and console-data | console-cyrillic.
Also, note that 'fonty' contains non-latin fonts that 
people may use instead of console-data.


I intend to make kbd-chooser mainstream, as well as d-i;
the keyboard selection should be hotplug, triggered on 
keyboard detection. This should be merged with X developments
in this area: loadkeys should work with use X keymaps.


Comments welcome.

Regards
Alastair