Subject: Re: bug#531: kbd: Init scripts were stripped at 2.0.3-2

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:37:50 +0000

Elliott,

Thanks for this.

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:30:38PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Package: kbd
> Version: 2.0.4-4
> 
> According to the changelog for 2.0.3-2:
> "Stop shipping /etc/init.d/kbd and /etc/kbd/* (Closes: #796583)"

My reading of that bug and also #734164 is that the initscripts were removed
because they were superseded, not because of any dropping of support for
non-systemd inits. kbd is deprecated and console-setup should be used.

I cannot find any breakage caused by the removal so I will close this
report. Please feel free to reopen or start a new bug if you have breakage.

Thanks

Mark