Source: kbd Version: 1.15.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Now we install console-setup as default. It is the first alternative in the recommends stanza. Let's match this situation with README.Debian of this document.
Please consider changing it along the patch. Regards, Osamu -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index e991e5c..39dab23 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -1,5 +1,24 @@ -The kbd Debian package only contains binaries from upstream kbd -tarball, console keymaps and fonts are shipped in console-data. -Keymap selection is performed either by running - dpkg-reconfigure console-data -or by calling install-keymap(8), from the console-common package. +Only binary executable commands are included in the kbd Debian binary package. + +Support for console keymaps and fonts requires you to install other packages. + + * console-setup (Current default choice) + * console-data (Previous default choice) + * console-cyrillic (Special purpose) + * console-braille (Special purpose) + ... + +The console-setup package unifies the keyboard configuration for the Linux +console and the X Window. The installtion time dialogue can be recalled as: + + # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration + # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup + +The console-data package only supports the Linux console. The installtion +time dialogue can be recalled as: + + # dpkg-reconfigure console-data + + (The install-keymap(8) from the console-common package may be used to + configure system.) +
