Bug#556426: install overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:13:45PM +0200, Shai Berger wrote:
> 
> Does too -- the definitions, once I make them manually, work beautifully.
> It is only the console-setup *installation* which doesn't, and I 
> maintain that

I agree.  BTW, your bug report is not a duplicate of 527641, it is a new one.

> Actually, this is exactly what happened. Paraphrasing my earlier message, I 
> had this in /etc/default/console-setup:
> 
> > > XKBLAYOUT="us,il"
> > > XKBVARIANT=",katef"
> 
> And it was overwritten.

>From the point of view of console-setup this is not a multi-layout 
setting because your layout (il) is not a Latin one so it requires a 
Latin complement.  As a workarround you can use the following settings:

XKBLAYOUT="us,il,us,il"
XKBVARIANT=",katef,,katef"

Anton Zinoviev