[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: pkg-kbd project on Alioth to maintain kdb Debian package

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> Hmmm, I did not receive it, but I cannot find my ticket anymore.
> Can you please try to import your files?

Done.  It took me some time before I realised what command I have to use:

svn checkout  svn+ssh://zinoviev@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-kbd

After that I had to type my password several times before the checkout
operation began. :-)

I've installed the files in people/zinoviev/console-setup.  This is a
package that can serve as a replacement for console-data.  Currently
it is not very well tested.  The user is not prompted for any XKB
options and as a result the non-Latin keyboards can not be switched to
non-Latin mode.  This is because I want to implement something more
user-friendly than simply selecting from the raw list of all XKB
options.

This is the contents of the package:

non-Debian part:
----------------

The ckbcomp utility to generate keymaps for the console.  It expects
to find the XKB files somewhere (in order of preference) in
/etc/console-setup/ckb, /etc/X11/xkb and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.

"make all" will build console fonts from BDF sources,
compose.ENCODING.inc files and a Perl-library KeyboardNames.pl with
three hashes listing the available keyboard models, layouts and
variants.  It also gzipes the ACM files in the directory acm/

Debian-part:
------------

I am not sure about the best name of the package.  Currently it is
console-setup.  It contains:

/etc/console-setup/ -- the configuration files of the package
	ckb/ -- a copy of /etc/X11/xkb of XFree86 4.2.  I haven't
		tested the ckbcomp utility with the XKB files from
		Xorg
	compose.*.inc -- keymaps with compose sequences.  One per encoding.
	boottime.kmap.gz -- the same purpose as
		/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
	SomeFonts.psf.gz, SomeACMs.acm.gz -- to make possible to setup
		the font even before the /usr is mounted.  This
		however requires to move consolechars, setfont and 
		kbd_mode from /usr/bin to /bin.
/etc/init.d/console-setup -- to setup the console (both font and
	keyboard)
/etc/default/console-setup -- defines shell variables for use by
	/etc/init.d/console-setup.  Can be used also by X
	configurator.  (Currently the Debconf configuration of the
	package doesn't make attempts to preserve the changes in this
	file by the local administrator.)
/usr/bin/ckbcomp -- generator of console keymaps
/usr/share/consolefonts -- all the necessary fonts
/usr/share/consoletrans -- the ACM files (and nothing more)
/usr/share/doc/console-setup -- currently two READMEs

The "config" script is not written in Perl but in Shell to make
possible to use it inside the Debian Installer.

Anton Zinoviev