Quoting Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: console-data > Version: 2:1.07-3 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > console-data currently contains a number of keymaps that exist from > pre-2.6 days. Before version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, a keymap had to be > made on an architecture-specific way; since the key codes of a PC > keyboard were not the same as that of, say, a Macintosh ADB keyboard, > the keymaps had to account for this difference. > > In 2.6, however, the kernel accounts for this difference; now, all > keycodes are translated to their PC equivalent; as such, a keymap that > works on a PC will now also work on a Macintosh, or on any other > architecture. > > Since loading a keymap that assumes architecture-specific keycodes > renders a keyboard fairly unusable, and since Debian hasn't supported > pre-2.6 kernels for a while now, it's probably best, in the interest of > avoiding confusion, to remove these outdated keycodes. > > Of course I don't know about *all* possible keymaps; but I can say with > certainty that the "mac-*" keymaps (except for the "mac-usb-*" ones) can > all safely be removed.
While I generally agree with you, I feel like I don't have the needed expertise to be sure doing this safely. I maintain console-data as much as I can, without all the needed skills to do it..:-) So, as long as I'm alone working on it, I'll be *very* conservative with it. Of course, even more as we're close to lenny release. I would very much welcome any help (or Alastair coming back to work deeper on it) to prepare a good post-lenny version, cleaned out from many many old cruft we keep in there (just check all possible variants of French and German keymaps for instance).
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