Re: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Switching d-i to kbd for squeeze?

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair@sceal.ie>]

On 28 Jan 2009, at 13:34, Michael Schutte wrote:

> d-iers,
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:52:42AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Can we switch from console-tools to kbd for squeeze? These days kbd  
> > is
> > better maintained (I know they've gone back and forth in the past),  
> > and
> > its setfont program supports a wider range of fonts than does
> > consolechars. Doing this would let us get rid of some grottiness in
> > localechooser's finish-install script where we make automatic
> > modifications to a conffile (!).
> >
> > This is largely independent of the work on switching to console- 
> > setup,
> > which still needs a set of underlying console utilities.
> >
> > If there's consensus, I can commit the relevant fixes.
>
> No objections from me as a kbd maintainer.

Strong agreement from me as console-tools maintainer.


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Regards,
Alastair

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