Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.149 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Just after the upgrade of keyboard-configuration from 1.148 to 1.149, I could see that my previous configuration was lost. More precisely, config.dat changed in the following way: Index: config.dat =================================================================== --- config.dat (revision 92179) +++ config.dat (revision 92180) @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Name: keyboard-configuration/modelcode Template: keyboard-configuration/modelcode -Value: pc105 +Value: Owners: d-i, keyboard-configuration Flags: seen @@ -549,6 +549,9 @@ Template: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout Value: true Owners: d-i, keyboard-configuration +Variables: + XKBLAYOUT = gb + XKBVARIANT = Name: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options Template: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options @@ -581,7 +584,7 @@ Name: keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap Template: keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap -Value: gb +Value: us Owners: d-i, keyboard-configuration Flags: seen and /etc/default/keyboard changed in the following way: Index: etc/default/keyboard =================================================================== --- etc/default/keyboard (revision 92179) +++ etc/default/keyboard (revision 92180) @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page. -XKBMODEL="pc105" +XKBMODEL="" XKBLAYOUT="gb" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="" I don't know the possible consequences, though. The /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/changelog.gz file just says: console-setup (1.149) unstable; urgency=medium [ Updated translations ] * Danish (da.po) by Joe Hansen -- Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:53:38 +0200 Moreover, I can see in the /var/log/apt/term.log file after an upgrade of the Linux kernel and the nvidia packages: [...] Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-3) ... Processing triggers for glx-alternative-nvidia (0.7.3) ... Processing triggers for update-glx (0.7.3) ... Processing triggers for glx-alternative-nvidia (0.7.3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-3) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-1-amd64 setupcon: The keyboard model is unknown, assuming 'pc105'. Keyboard may be configured incorrectly. Log ended: 2016-09-19 19:08:59 Note: I have -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145 2016-09-19 19:03:19 /etc/default/keyboard Thus this file was modified when keyboard-configuration was upgraded (and before this upgrade of the Linux kernel and the nvidia packages). This error message is just a consequence of this bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf 1.5.59 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3 keyboard-configuration recommends no packages. keyboard-configuration suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.149 ii debconf 1.5.59 ii xkb-data 2.17-1 Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.24-3 ii lsb-base 9.20160629 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.44 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.8 ii kbd 2.0.3-2 Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests: ii console-setup 1.149 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to: pn console-common <none> pn console-data <none> pn console-tools <none> pn gnome-control-center <none> ii kbd 2.0.3-2 ii systemd 231-6 -- debconf information: * keyboard-configuration/optionscode: * keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout console-setup/fontface47: Fixed keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true console-setup/framebuffer_only: * keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC console-setup/fontsize: 8x16 console-setup/guess_font: * keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true console-setup/use_system_font: * keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling * keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: gb keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true * keyboard-configuration/variantcode: * keyboard-configuration/variant: English (UK) * keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true * keyboard-configuration/other: * keyboard-configuration/layout: console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16 * keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16 * keyboard-configuration/modelcode: * keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
