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Re: Bug#384323: Bug#384248: installation-report: Almost successful Etch installation with di-beta3



> AFAIK, console-cyrillic is just a set of cyrillic fonts, keymaps and a script
> to tie them up. One thing to mention is that keymap is generated dynamically
> by the script from a base keymap and a chosen method of layout switching.
> That's all.

Dunno.

kbd development seems pretty stucked...and console-data is in
maintenance-only mode.


> The feature for choosing a method for the layout switching is very useful though,
> IMHO. So, may be it is reasonable to support such a feature on the D-I level for
> all languages which have non-latin keyboard layout without a dedicated key for
> layout switching?
> 
> That way we can get rid of console-cyrillic and make the keyboard layout managment
> more generic and language independent.


All this would be great.....if someone jumps in and really looks at
all this console/keyboard stuff which is pretty loosely managed in the
D-I team currently.....


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