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Re: Bug#514654: debian-cd: [squeeze] include kbd on first CD rather than console-tools



Quoting Steve McIntyre (steve@einval.com):

> /* Used for Lenny and earlier */
> console-data
> console-common
> console-tools
> console-cyrillic
> console-terminus
> /* Used for Squeeze and onwards */
> console-setup
> pcmciautils
> ...
> 
> What *should* be there now, exactly? I've no idea what's needed in
> terms of the fonts, console-* and kbd-* :-(


Frankly speaking, console management is a big mess, imho, with nearly
nobody caring enough..:-)

console-cyrillic and console-terminus can be dropped. They used to be
installed for several languages (Cyrillic ones and Eastern european
ones) but we use console-setup now.

The same stands for console-data which we kept for Western European
languages...until we dropped it too.

console-common is superseded by kbd so you can drop it too. One of
both is Recommended by console-setup.

So, indeed, the comments are right: drop everything mentioned "for
lenny and earlier" and keep what's mentioned "for squeeze" but add kbd
to this.

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