Bug#527124: [console-setup-mini] should provide console-setup

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

[quoting the whole mail for debian-x's benefit]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:33:22 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:

> I think it is safe to use unversioned dependency because even the oldest 
> versions of console-setup used the same syntax for its configuration 
> file and had all features X needs.  The only important feature that 1.29 
> adds is that it reads xorg.conf for defaults when the package is 
> installed for first time.  However:
> 
> 1. If an upgrade of console-setup is forced because of the dependency of 
> xserver-xorg, the new console-setup will not use xorg.conf because it 
> already has configuration file.
> 
> 2. If the upgrade of xserver-xorg forces new installation of 
> console-setup then the new version will come from the same version of 
> Debian as xserver-xorg so this will be new console-setup.
> 
This is definitely not true as long as testing still has console-setup
1.28.  It might be ok to drop the versioned dep, but not before a newer
c-s has transitioned to testing, IMO.
(even then, I'm not convinced that removing the versioned dep buys us
anything over adding a console-setup-mini alternative)

> 3. Even if we suppose that some Debian-derived distribution combines the 
> new xserver-xorg with old console-setup, nothing bad will happen - 
> console-setup will simply ask the user for their keyboard and build 
> proper configuration file.

Cheers,
Julien