Bug#302591: localization-config: Preconfig of X keyboard settings confusing
Package: localization-config
Version: 0.111
Severity: minor
During an installation with a Dutch keyboard attached I was
confused during X configuration.
The installation was done using RC3 at medium priority.
The reason was that two questions I expected were not shown and because
of that the other questions were out of context which led me to enter
incorrect values.
The full set of keyboard configuration dialogs consists of:
- Introductory message explaining keyboard config
- model (preconfigured to 'pc105')
- layout (preconfigured to 'nl')
- variant
- options
Because of the introductory message, you expect to see the model and
layout questions. Because l-c sets the 'seen' flag, these are not shown.
This led me to enter 'nl' at the variant question, which is of course
wrong.
I think in this case it would be better to show the questions with
the preconfigured values so the user can see the full context.
Alternative would be to preconfigure _all_ keyboard related questions,
including the introductory message.
Note: I don't think that not setting the seen flag is necessary for all
questions being preconfigured by l-c. Just in those cases where not
showing questions could be confusing.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=nl_NL@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages localization-config depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.13 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libconfig-inifiles-perl 2.38-3 Read .ini-style configuration file
ii locales 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii perl-base 5.8.4-8 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
-- debconf information excluded
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