Package: kbd Version: 2.6.4-2 Severity: normal User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer, First: note that I'm not familiar with keyboard settings (I've always used a US keyboard, so defaults work for me), so it might be a silly bug report. The bug was initially reported against the Kali bugtracker at [1]. But it can be easily reproduced with Debian: just boot the Debian installer, switch to a console, and try to use the command 'loadkeys'. The issue is that 'loadkeys' (provided by the kbd package) doesn't work out of the box. $ loadkeys de loadkeys: Unable to open file: de: No such file or directory This happens because the package console-data is not installed. And the fix is to install console-data, after that loadkeys works. My question is therefore about kbd packaging, in particular the field Recommends: Recommends: console-setup | console-data Why a logical OR, why not recommend both packages? Then loadkeys would be functional out of the box. At the moment, users who want to use loadkeys have absolutely no chance to guess what's wrong. The user message could be improved to say what file is missing (assuming the program looks for a particular file), or could even suggest to install console-data (that would be a Debian-specific patch). Just some ideas. Thanks for reading! Best, Arnaud ---- [1]: https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=8741#c19246