[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#833888: kbd: Consider including upstream vlock

[Cesare Leonardi]

Package: kbd
Version: 2.0.3-2
Severity: normal

Upstream kbd provides a vlock binary but it's not included in the
Debian package. Looking from Debian's changelog it's like that since
february 2013.

I know that Debian already provides a separate vlock package (i use
it), but it was last updated in 2014, it is currently orphaned and
upstream source looks unreacheable (#833843).

In light of this, i wonder if the kbd's vlock inclusion could be
reconsidered. I don't know if it could be taken as an entire substitute
for the vlock package.

Looks like Opensuse, Gentoo and Ubuntu still carry a vlock package from
the same source as Debian, while Fedora and Archlinux don't have it in
their repository and use the one provided with kbd.

Cesare.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  libc6     2.23-4
ii  lsb-base  9.20160629

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-setup  1.148

kbd suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information