Bug#501573: tasksel - Please remove hotkey-setup from the laptop task
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.75
Please consider removing hotkey-setup from the laptop task. It's a fairly
simplistic implementation, in some cases based only on the manufacturer
of the system. AFAICT the definitions are now in most/all cases also
covered by HAL in a more fine-grained manner [1].
Recent updates to hotkey-setup all seem to have been to fix breakages it
caused. I don't see any changes to support new models.
IMO the generic cross-distro solution is much to be preferred over
something Debian-specific here. It seems to me that hotkey-setup was very
much needed for previous releases, but that general Linux desktop support
has overtaken it.
Cheers,
FJP
[1] /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-*
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