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

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

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:03:40AM +0200, Shai Berger wrote:
> 
> I made my own variant of the Hebrew keyboard mapping to add a couple of 
> symbols; I called it "katef" and referred it in /etc/default/console-setup, 
> like so:

The current version of console-setup doesn't support non-standard 
variants.  This is going to be fixed, but first I'd like clean up the 
bugs in the last uploaded version as there are a lot of changes in in so 
probable a lot of bugs too.

> I don't fully understand the discussion on the bug, but if I understand 
> correctly, console-setup takes debconf's opinion of what the file should look 
> like a little too seriously; and this may have been made worse by debconf's 
> lack of support of multiple layouts, as reported/discussed in #506467.

You can use multiple layouts.  Infact if you put multiple layouts in 
/etc/default/console-setup then your variant katef won't be overwriten.

Anton Zinoviev