Re: Review of console-setup wrt D-I [very long]

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Anton Zinoviev, le Fri 26 Jun 2009 21:27:48 +0300, a écrit :
> > Let's have a look (I hope I counted correctly):
> > 1) keyboard model, ~150 options ... WTF?
> 
> I don't know.

They correspond to the variety of keyboards with additional keys. For
instance, my "Internet" keyboard has a few navigation keys.
Unfortunately they are incompatible one with the other.

> > If "Netherlands" is selected I get the layout question with:
> >    Netherlands
> >    Netherlands - Macintosh
> >    Netherlands - Standard
> >    Netherlands - Sun dead keys
> > OK, the last 3 should probably not be there, but "Netherlands" 
> > and "Netherlands - standard"? Is "Netherlands" not standard enough?
> > Possibly "Standard" should be "Sun Standard" instead?
> 
> I have no idea what the difference between "Netherlands" and 
> "Netherlands - Standard" is.

I believe that's a bit like the battle between the "legacy" french
layout and the "current" french layout: concerning standard keyboards,
they are just the same, but they extend it in a different way.

> Such problems have to be reported upstream.

Or we could whitelist or blacklist some layouts.

Samuel