Sorry for the late responce.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:07:26PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
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> I see, thanks for elaborating. This does sound appealing, but what
> should happen in an upgrade if the package into which we move the
> conffiles (IMHO this should be console-setup) is not installe
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:54:45PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I understand this point. Would you like to keep these
> > old configuration files?
>
> Not at all. It's just that the idea of leaving behind the
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
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> I'm not sure if I understand this point. Would you like to keep these
> old configuration files?
Not at all. It's just that the idea of leaving behind the modified
legacy conffiles unowned never occurred to me.
Since there i
Hey,
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:37:08PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> I am not sure I understand entirely the relations between various
> console-related packages. There are too many of them - console-setup,
> console-data, console-common, kbd (not to mention the obsoleted
> console-tools and
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
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> * The kbd init script offers several things that console-setup
> doesn't, namely the option to configure different fonts on different
> consoles, the possibility to modify the keymap through a sed script,
> the conf
Hey,
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 07:42:34PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > anyway, i don't know whether i'm talking about console-data at all at
> > this point, because things are such a mess. it's where i configured my
> > keymap, in any case. previously.
> >
> > open /etc/init.d/kbd and look for
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
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> anyway, i don't know whether i'm talking about console-data at all at
> this point, because things are such a mess. it's where i configured my
> keymap, in any case. previously.
>
> open /etc/init.d/kbd and look for HAVE_SETU
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Console-setup doesn't break console-data for the following reasons:
>
> 2. console-setup can be configured not to overwrite the configuration of
> console-data.
>
nobody talked about overwriting. the phrase was "made ineffective".
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:09:51PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > This is what I would do if I was in your position: [...]
> >
> your proposal is completely useless to users in my position.
>
> console-setup *does* break c
anton,
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> This is what I would do if I was in your position: [...]
>
your proposal is completely useless to users in my position.
console-setup *does* break console-data, because its mere presence makes
the debconf setup of console-d
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:06:22AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
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> So, well, I'm very tempted to re-reassign the bug and then immediately
> fix this myself in c-s git.
Well, go agead! :)
Since a long time I am not interested in arguing.
> Breaks and Provides are the right way to handle a t
Quoting Anton Zinoviev (an...@lml.bas.bg):
> I agree. I am not against removing c-d. What I don't like is to abuse
> 'Breaks' and 'Provides' inapropriately. We must not force our way to
> the users, they have the right to install c-d even if the package is
> removed from the archive. The nu
reassign 734164 console-data
retitle 734164 The package doesn't make obvious to the users that it is
deprecated in favour of console-setup
thanks
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 08:38:32AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
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> Well, that's long overdue. A way to really get rid of c-d is probably
> to have
reassign 734164 console-setup
retitle 734164 Please add Breaks and Provides to really replace console-data
thanks
Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen (oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de):
> Package: console-data
> Version: 1.12-3
> Severity: normal
>
> console-data appears to be mostly deprecated in favor of conso
Package: console-data
Version: 1.12-3
Severity: normal
console-data appears to be mostly deprecated in favor of console-setup,
and is overridden by the latter if it is installed.
this isn't exactly obvious without reading through the scripts, and
leads to problems like bug #626680, ubuntu bug 5218
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