Bug 53515 - Switch from deprecated console-data to current console-setup
Switch from deprecated console-data to current console-setup
Status: NEW
Product: UCS
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UCS 5.0
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Reported: 2021-06-25 11:16 CEST by Philipp Hahn
Modified: 2021-06-25 11:16 CEST (History)
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Description Philipp Hahn univentionstaff 2021-06-25 11:16:11 CEST
UCS "bin:univention-base-packages" Depends "bin:console-data", which is more-or-less deprecated and unmaintained:
- last upstream is v1.12 is from 2011
- Debian still references salsa, which is dead
- The were plans to merge it back into "kbd", which never happened because it is obsoleted by "bin:console-setup"

Historically there are many more packages, which were forked/merged from each other and over time "current best practice" changed.
"console-setup" is the new package as it both supports Console and X11 compared to "console-data", which is Console only. See /usr/share/doc/kbd/README.Debian

- 'bin:console-setup' and 'bin:console-setup-linux' Low-level, already include all required fonts
- 'bin:kbd' preferred "bin:console-setup" over "bin:console-data"
- 'bin:systemd' has 'localectl'
- 'bin:keyboard-configuration' High-level Debian tool

https://linux.debian.devel.narkive.com/b5aoMeoO/status-of-kbd-console-data-and-console-setup
https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard

Switch univention-base-packages to depend on console-setup