Bug#624327: marked as done ("dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" silently dies)

[Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de>]

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On 04/28/11 10:58, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 
> I am not sure this is a special case.  Yes, it makes no sense to 
> manually install keyboard-configuration on a headless machine but there 
> can be some other reasons that cause keyboard-configuration to be 
> automatically installed.
> 

Sorry, but I doubt that it is the job of postinst to work around
broken foreign package dependencies or other "installation accidents".
IMHO we have to assume that this package has been installed on purpose.

AFAICS keyboard-configuration is required only by some console-setup*
packages and xserver-xorg-core. That seems OK to me. Do you think
that the information configured by postinst could become necessary to
run a server without local keyboard, e.g. a XDMCP server providing
remote Xwindow login sessions to thin clients?


Another idea: Maybe the postinst script could print a message saying
"Keyboard configuration skipped, since there is no local keyboard
attached"?


Regards

Harri
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