On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:51:36PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > (keeping CC, just in case) You can drop me at least. > > console-tools is currently preferred over kbd and installed by default > > (on 97.41% of all machines according to popcon). > > > > Given the comments of Michael and Alistair, it seems clear to me that we > > should move away from console-tools (back) to kbd. Also, Michael seems > > to be willing to look into this matter. > > > > The question now is, if we should try to get this issue fixed for lenny > > or defer it to lenny+1. What other issues would need attention, d-i,..? > > At first glance, the move is probably what should be done....but I > think it's now too late for lenny. Do you think that there is a specific step that will take a long time? Fixing the three packages is no problem. fonty and dynafont build from the same source and do well without console-tools, same with cmatrix; freevo actually needs a modification, but that’s just three characters. I’ll submit the relevant patches soon. If it is just a general feeling that the transition will break some things in unexpected ways, I think it is a good idea if some of the readers of this list could try switching from console-tools to kbd. I suppose that most users won’t see a difference, but more bugs could be reported that way. As d-i has been brought up: Moving from console-tools to kbd does not affect the installer; console-tools needs libconsole, which is too large for d-i, so it already uses kbd-udeb. I don’t have a problem with waiting for Lenny first. But reading #387129, for example, the transition probably should already have happened. So why not now :-) Cheers, -- Michael Schutte <m.schutte.jr@gmail.com>
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