Bug#524233: console-setup should conflict with console-data
On Sat, 23 May 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Package: console-setup, console-data
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > console-setup and console-data both allow you to setup the
> > keyboard layout but they do not take each other settings into
> > account.
> >
> > I think there is yet an other package that does the same thing,
> > but I'm not sure about it's name.
>
> I didn't close this bug because I was considering to add a Debconf
> question asking which package should configure the console (similar to
> that the user gets with more than one display manager - xdm, wdm, kdm,
> gdm). But after a second thought I doubt this is worth the effort -
> console-tools is almost unmaintained and there are still some things
> that console-setup doesn't do, such as the default state of NumLock,
> setterm. Moreover the scripts in console-tools and console-data are in
> bad shape and it will be difficult for their maintainers to do the
> required changes.
>
> So unless there are objections I'd like to close #524233 and #524239.
Such choice ought to be documented in a README.Debian and
maybe even in the description. The user should have a way to know
what is more or less obsolete and what should be kept on his system
to have proper console configuration support.
Cheers,
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