Bug#1069791: console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.226
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Linux kernel 6.9+ will support larger font sizes for HiDPI screens. This
is probably aimed at "more than 4k" monitors, but for accessibility
reasons it would be really useful to have larger sizes available sooner
for those of us already have 4k sorts of screens.
Perhaps this might best be done by putting those huge-sized fonts in an
appropriately named -huge fonts package? I'll leave the implementation
details to you, this is just a request for the fonts to be created.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.226
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.86
ii keyboard-configuration 1.226
ii xkb-data 2.41-2
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.37-18
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.09-1
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.86
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-7
ii xkb-data 2.41-2
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.66
ii kbd 2.6.4-2
ii keyboard-configuration 1.226
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii kbd 2.6.4-2
ii systemd 255.4-1+b1
-- debconf information:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/guess_font:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
console-setup/fontsize: 16x32
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
keyboard-configuration/layout:
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16x32 (framebuffer only)
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
keyboard-configuration/other:
keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key PC
keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16x32 (framebuffer only)
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US)
console-setup/use_system_font:
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* console-setup/fontface47: TerminusBold
keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
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