Christian Perrier: Strange day: console-setup work
Today was a strange day.
We are preparing our holiday trip to Sicily but had a full day at home,
meant for packing and the like. Indeed, packing was done in a few hours this
morning and I ended up....hacking on D-I.
For whatever reason, I came back on the plans we have, among the D-I team,
to switch to console-setup for console handling. Something already done in
Ubuntu and which brings, for instance and if I'm correct, the benefit of
having the same keyboard maps for X and the console.
So, first, I summarized the floating ideas in a wiki
page.
Then I worked on a few possible modifications to "localechooser", the D-I
component that allows users to choose their language/country/locale and
which needs modifications for console-setup. That lead me to produce an
experimental image of D-I netboot for i386 and asked
translators for some testing.
MJ Ray
noticed the call for testing and asked Esperanto translators for some
testing, which Serge Leblanc did...and reported a nasty bug, later confirmed
by Damyan Ivanov, then investigated by Anton Zinoviev, then digged a little
more by me again, then advised by Rapha l Hertzog and Julien Cristau on
#debian-devel-fr...and lead to an
RC bug reported against....perl base.
All this, of course, was completely unplanned as of this morning. This is
probably one of the reasons that make me enjoy free software development.