On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:51:31 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Cesare Leonardi, on Sun 31 Jul 2016 16:22:54 +0200, wrote: >> Console-data package was last updated in 2014, was reported obsolete >> for a long time and user reporting bug to it are sollecited to migrate >> to console-setup. For example see the preistoric bug #626680 (still >> valid). And upstream looks definitely dead. >> Why this broken package is still available? > > Perhaps for some corner cases. It's meant to be removed anyway. > >> Nowadays localectl from systemd coupled with kbd are able to cover the >> main job of console-setup, isn't it? > > I don't think so. Does it support the various modifiers that xkb > supports, for instance? Does it cover at least the same set of keymaps > as xkb? Are kbd keymaps really as well maintained as xkb-data keymaps > are?
localed by itself does little more than updating /etc/default/keyboard et al[1] (it can set XKBMODEL, XKBVARIANT, XKBLAYOUT and XKBOPTIONS in that file). It then tries to invoke systemd-vconsole, which is the service that actually tries to setup the console, but it is not enabled in debian. >> I mean setting up console's and X11's keyboard. > > Does systemd now sets up X11 keyboard too?! Yes. But in debian it is patched to only touch /etc/default/keyboard. [1] Via a debian patch, though. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
