Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

> * The workaround I proposed should not affect the languages using
>   iso-8859-1/15 and utf-8, because this workaround means to return
>   temporarily back to the old behaviour (the one before applying the
>   patch to fix the keyboard freezes).  Nevertheless we should perform a
>   test.  Hence I CC'ed this mail to Christian (iso-8859-1/15) and
>   Konstantinos (utf-8).  Could you check the French and Greek keyboards
>   _after the installation_ by first applying the patch attached to the
>   /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/70kbd-chooser in d-i phase?
>  
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> roktas

> diff -ru kbd-chooser.orig/debian/prebaseconfig kbd-chooser/debian/prebaseconfig
> --- kbd-chooser.orig/debian/prebaseconfig	2004-04-19 05:13:49.000000000 +0300
> +++ kbd-chooser/debian/prebaseconfig	2004-10-18 19:36:11.000000000 +0300
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  db_get debian-installer/serial-console
>  if [ "$RET" = "false" ] ; then
>  	apt-install console-tools console-data console-common 
> -	chroot /target install-keymap $KEYMAP
> +	kbd-mode -a; chroot /target install-keymap $KEYMAP; kbd-mode -u
>  fi


This works with default French installs (fr_FR@euro locale and
fr-latin9 keyboard map)