[systemd-devel] systemd numbers for Debian Sid/unstable system

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Lennart Poettering 

> On Wed, 27.06.12 21:59, Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen at err.no) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ]] Lennart Poettering 
> > 
> > > Hmm, the other distributions have an #ifdef TARGET_FOOBAR section in
> > > vconsole-setup for that. Debian currently doesn't. I'd be willing to add
> > > a patch that parses the old DEbian configuration files, to implement the
> > > fallback.
> > 
> > We use the X11 keyboard definitions.  Are you sure you want to
> > completely reimplement console-setup? :-)
> 
> Ah, hmm. I heard of that. Can you explain how precisely that works? Do
> you actually use the same keybaord definitions, i.e. have converted them
> to console definitions? Or do you just share the same naming namespace?

console-setup reads the xkb definitions and downsamples them to
something the console can understand.  IIRC, it doesn't work for the
most complex keymaps and the cases where you have multiple keymaps
defined which you can switch between, but it works well in the simple
case of one language.  (IIRC, this is due to kernel limitations in how
many keys can be defined and such.  Also, I don't think the kernel
understands Compose.)

> Any docs available for this?

There might be some in
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.78.tar.gz

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