Bug#564611: console unusuable after upgrade

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

close 564611
thanks

I am closing this bug because as I said there is nothing wrong in 
console-setup.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote:
> 
> >This freeze was not caused by the removal of console-setup.
> 
> Perhaps, but rebooting without reinstalling it did not solve
> anything, so it is linked somehow.

Ok, and it is true - I don't know anything about this.  But the fact is 
this happens only while console-setup is not installed so most certainly 
the problem is somewhere else.

> Seems you don't know much about anything. If console-tools is not
> faulty, then you could help me find out why this removal has such
> unattended impact.

>From your report I concluded that you knew the reason console-setup was 
removed.  It was automatically installed by the dependency of 
xserver-xorg(-core) and then removed when this dependency was changed to 
a dependency on keyboard-configuration.  And it is obvious why its 
removal had such an impact.

> I find it quite rude to just say "that's not my responsability" and 
> not try at all to help users.

I agree.  I decided that you didn't need help because you fixed your own 
system.  And I think no action is required in any package so it is 
better to close the bug than to reassign somewhere else.  And it would 
be stupid to tag it 'wontfix' because no fix is necessary.

> >Every autoremoval of packages involves the risk to remove a package that
> >the user does not want removed.
> 
> If users migrating from Lenny have important packages removed with
> the default way of cleaning his system (with apt-get autoremove, as
> suggested by the tool itself), then i think this is a problem.

Yes, it would be a problem and it would probably mean xserver-xorg has 
to depend again on console-setup.  Fortunately the lenny's version of 
xserver-xorg doesn't depend on console-setup.

> So, why don't you want to help ?

Because I don't know what I can do about it.  I don't think Debian will 
be improved in any way if xserver-xorg(-core) depends again on 
console-setup.

Anton Zinoviev