Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org): > I'd even say, one language/country, one layout. Note for instance > french, for which there are a lot of layouts, from BE, CA, CH, FR, > ... But there is little chance getting wrong when taking the country > into account too. That's why I proposed to first have a list for each > country/language pair. Then a list for each language can be used if the > user is not happy with the former. My point was *not* about showing a different list to users depending on the language they selected. It was just about building *one* list that would offer users all "reasonable" choices. > > Here is what I come with (to be completed...I stopped at Kazakh): > > No need to do it by hand, it can be automated from xkeyboard-config's > data. Any divergence from a hand-written version is just a bug in > xkeyboard-config. I don't really see how such a list could be derived from xkeyboard-config. What there does tell me that I need a keymap for fr_FR, another for fr_BE and fr_CH or fr_CA....while de_DE and de_AT are happy with the same one? > > probably around 70 for i386|amd64 and much much less for > > arches where there is a need for a dedicated list > > Why a dedicated list? Because I see this as the only way to keep things simple. We would then have to just maintain that "selection" of "common" keymaps. This is about the same method we're using, now, in console-data: c-d has a big bunch of keymaps for each architectures (admittedly a lot for i386) out of which we "select" a few to be presented to users in a single question in D-I (while configuring the regular package sticks with a multi-level configuration process). My proposal indeed means creating a specific console-setup-udeb.config that would be *very* simple: asks just one question and set console-setup/* accordingly. After this initial discussion, I think I roughly have the needed scheme in mind and I can probably write down a patch with these ideas. Hopefully, I'll get enough time for this in the next weeks.
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