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Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]



On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:23:56PM +0000, Michael Schutte wrote:
> As d-i has been brought up: Moving from console-tools to kbd does not
> affect the installer;

localechooser would need to be changed to install kbd rather than
console-tools.

> console-tools needs libconsole, which is too large for d-i, so it
> already uses kbd-udeb.

Are you thinking of console-setup here? Note that d-i still uses
kbd-chooser, which has its own cloned-and-hacked implementation of bits
of the keyboard utilities.

(The most substantial thing we need to do to get console-setup ready is
to sort out i18n, I think. I've been hoping to have time to work on
this.)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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