reassign 484748 console-setup retitle 484748 Should not need console-cyrillic for proper operation thanks Quoting Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov@gmail.com): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: l10n > > To reproduce: download mini.iso (either text-mode or graphical). Start > installation, select Russian as the language. At some point, you will be > asked (by console-setup) which key combination to use for switching > between layouts. > > Then you'll hit http://bugs.debian.org/473559, please work around it by > switching to the second virtual console, issuing "rm > /target/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/*apt*", switching back, and > setting debconf priority back to normal. This is not, however, the > subject of this bug report. > > Then the installer will download and install language-specific packages, > and console-cyrillic among them. This package also asks for the keyboard > layout switching combination. > > So the end result is that two packages are setting the keyboard layout in > the installed system: console-setup and (later, thus overriding the > settings) console-cyrillic. It is also ugly to see essentially the same > question being asked twice via debconf (first by console-setup, and then > by console-cyrillic). > > I understand that there is a plan to remove console-cyrillic and rely > solely on console-setup in the future. However, this doesn't work now: if > I remove console-cyrillic in hope to rely only on console-setup, the > keyboard becomes completely unusable when I press Alt+Shift in order to > switch to Russian (the presence of console-cyrillic, thus, masks the bug > in console-setup). > > Since Lenny is nearly frozen, I suggest reverting the decision to use > console-setup for languages (including Russian) where its settings are > overridden later. In other words, for Lenny, when Russian language is > selected during installation, please install only console-cyrillic, not > console-setup. Well, Anton pushed for console-setup to be used for Cyrillic languages, so I guess he might have clues about this. The point seems to be that c-s does not work alone from what you claim above.... So, I prefer reassigning this to console-setup and get Anton's advice. Anton, if you think you can't solve that, then we'll need to revert the switch to c-s for all cyrillic languages and go to back console-cyrillic alone.
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