Quoting Julien Cristau (jcristau@debian.org): > [please cc me on any replies as I'm not on -boot] > > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether there are any plans to install console-setup by > default in the squeeze time frame? > It would be nice to have only one place to setup keyboard settings for > both X and the console, and as we'll be migrating that away from > xorg.conf for the Xorg input-hotplug stuff anyway, I wonder if I should > move the settings from xorg.conf to /etc/default/console-setup when > upgrading X, and use that file to determine the layout in hal/X. > For initial installs, I'll still need something to set the layout, > which means either keep doing it in xserver-xorg.postinst, or rely on > console-setup doing it for me. Obviously I prefer the second option ;) There were plans to *use* console-setup in D-I instead of kbd-chooser and console-data udebs. They would have resulted in c-s being used on the installed system as well. There is even a wiki pakge in the DebianInstaller tree about this. The plan choke on two things, so far: - i18n of the keymap questions (keymap names), which would be a regression - having someone really caring about this *and* being skilled enough in those things to be able to commit self to conduct the transition *and* maintain c-s afterwards So, I think that everybody agrees on the *principle*...now we need to find the resources to actually do it. and that would make me very happy as the current mess of console-tools, console-common, kbd and console-data is a nightmare, particularly considering that most of these are in maintenance mode.
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