Bug#319902: #319902: old code in kbd-chooser

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>]

Hi,

Yes, there is significant common code in kbd and kbd-chooser.
The plan is the following:

(1) console-tools, data, get replaced by kbd in etch.
(2) kbd-chooser is also a deb in etch, usable outside d-i
    (Petter Reinholdsen is working on this).
(3) kbd-chooser & kbd make console-common redundant (its original
purpose was to choose a keyboard map from a number of package sources,
and use either kbd or console-tools to run it at boot-time. kbd-chooser
would select the kbd map and place it in
the /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, and then kbd would run it. Remove
console-common

finally,
create a  library in kbd for common code used by kbd-chooser, used in
both the kbd-chooser deb, udeb and kbd. (This was part of the plan for
console-tools, a good plan but never brought to fruition as console-*
was abandoned upstream.  This time, I intend to do it without forking
kbd; Andries Brouwer (kbd upstream) agrees in principle.

This work is planned for August, as I am busy until then.

Regards
Alastair