Bug#657904: console-setup: Shouldn't console-setup package put files in /usr/share/doc/console-setup?
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.75
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I edited /etc/default/console-setup, where it said "Read README.fonts for
explanation". So, I went looking for README.fonts. The first place I looked
was /usr/share/doc/console-setup - the directory is empty.
"That's strange," I thought, "every Debian package puts at least _something_
in its doc directory."
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
$ locate *README.fonts*
$ ls /usr/share/doc/console-setup/
$ sudo apt-get install console-setup-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package console-setup-doc
* What was the outcome of this action?
I'm up the creek. Can't find the documentation.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected to find README.fonts.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.75
ii debconf 1.5.41
ii keyboard-configuration 1.75
ii xkb-data 2.3-2
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.13-24
ii lsb-base 3.2-28
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.41
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-18
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-7+b1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.3-7
ii keyboard-configuration 1.75
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
ii console-common <none>
ii console-data <none>
ii console-tools <none>
ii kbd 1.15.3-7
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-1.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-13.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-14.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-15.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-2.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-3.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-4.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-7.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-9.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/compose.VISCII.inc changed [not included]
/etc/console-setup/remap.inc changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
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