Package: console-setup
Version: 1.46
Severity: normal
Hi,
This bug may be a dupe for bug #527641. I tried first
to report it as additional information (and reopening)
of that bug, but the attempt was rejected.
Please note that the original bug was marked "serious" for
overwriting the configuration file; according to what I
see here, if that severity was valid, it is still valid here.
The new info:
I made my own variant of the Hebrew keyboard mapping to add a couple of
symbols; I called it "katef" and referred it in /etc/default/console-setup,
like so:
--- console-setup~ 2009-09-07 04:03:15.000000000 +0300
+++ console-setup 2009-11-15 10:52:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
XKBMODEL="pc101"
XKBLAYOUT="us,il"
-XKBVARIANT=","
+XKBVARIANT=",katef"
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
However, on occasion I would see this change being undone; this time I finally
got annoyed enough to track it down[1], and found bug #527641; also, the
modification date on my file matches the last update of console-setup.
I don't fully understand the discussion on the bug, but if I understand
correctly, console-setup takes debconf's opinion of what the file should look
like a little too seriously; and this may have been made worse by debconf's
lack of support of multiple layouts, as reported/discussed in #506467.
Thanks,
Shai.
[1] This is made a little hard by the fact that, although the console-setup
package modifies /etc/default/console-setup, it is not reported as its owner
by "dpkg -S".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.28-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii xkb-data 1.6-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information:
console-setup/variant: Israel
console-setup/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/modelcode: pc101
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/fontsize: 16
console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
console-setup/layoutcode: us,il
debian-installer/console-setup/title:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic
languages
* console-setup/toggle: Alt+Caps Lock
console-setup/fontface: Fixed
console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
console-setup/compose: No compose key
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
console-setup/other:
console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
console-setup/optionscode: grp:alt_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll
console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
console-setup/layout: Israel
console-setup/variantcode: ,
console-setup/model: Generic 101-key PC
console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
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