Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-09-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-08-26 20:10, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Actually, thinking again about it, for space reasons we only include the > debconf-selectable layouts in the udebs anyway, so that will actually be > a wontfix. That's OK, but it needs to be documented in the installation manual. Andreas -- To UNS

Processed: Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags 682857 + wontfix Bug #682857 [cdebconf] console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys Added tag(s) wontfix. -- 682857: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682857 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org w

Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags 682857 + wontfix Actually, thinking again about it, for space reasons we only include the debconf-selectable layouts in the udebs anyway, so that will actually be a wontfix. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:36:28AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > What about introducing new templates of string type that can be used in > > order to preseed arbitrary values in them? > > Then they'd appear in the user-presented choices, which we don't want to > clutter. > > Another way

Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Fri 10 Aug 2012 10:00:27 +0300, a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > What would be needed is to patch debconf into accepting preseed values > > which are not among the choices. > > This doesn't look as a clean solution to me. Debconf

Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > What would be needed is to patch debconf into accepting preseed values > which are not among the choices. This doesn't look as a clean solution to me. Debconf does here what it is supposed to do. What about introducing new te

Processed: Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign 682857 cdebconf Bug #682857 [console-setup-udeb] console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys Bug reassigned from package 'console-setup-udeb' to 'cdebconf'. No longer marked as found in versions console-setup/1.81. Ignoring reque

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign 682857 cdebconf Andreas Beckmann, le Thu 09 Aug 2012 13:50:19 +0200, a écrit : > On 2012-08-09 13:44, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Andreas Beckmann, le Thu 09 Aug 2012 13:32:25 +0200, a écrit : > >> and the > >> db_input call (which is not presented to the user because I preseeded

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Beckmann, le Thu 09 Aug 2012 13:32:25 +0200, a écrit : > The problem seems to be that "de(nodeadkeys)" is not in the Choices-C > set of the select template keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap Ah, yes. > and the > db_input call (which is not presented to the user because I preseeded a > valu

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-08-09 13:44, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Beckmann, le Thu 09 Aug 2012 13:32:25 +0200, a écrit : >> and the >> db_input call (which is not presented to the user because I preseeded a >> value there) followed by db_go seems to reset it to the default value "us". > > Yes, and I'm afraid

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-08-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I've been debugging a bit further. The following is a sketched flow how the keyboard settings move within debconf: preseeded: d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select de d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de d-i keyboard-configuration/variantcode string nodeadkeys db_ge

Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

2012-07-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: console-setup-udeb Version: 1.81 Severity: important Hi, I couldn't find a way to preseed keyboard configuration to use layout=de and variant=nodeadkeys. I tried a wide variation of settings, tried to understand keyboard-configuration.config ... to no success. As I couldn't find a curren