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

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

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 a
> >> value there) followed by db_go seems to reset it to the default value "us".
> > 
> > Yes, and I'm afraid this is a wontfix: we want to avoid too many choices
> > (i.e. not introduce de(nodeadkeys) in the menu selection).
> 
> Limiting the choices sounds reasonable. But perhaps there could be a
> solution that honours the more detailed preseeded settings?

What would be needed is to patch debconf into accepting preseed values
which are not among the choices.

After that console-setup-udeb should already be able to just do what you
want.

Samuel