Bug#561005: purging console-setup-mini makes you lose some console-setup configuration
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.50
Severity: normal
Hi and thanks for maintaining console-setup!
On a box where console-setup-mini was installed, I issued the following
command:
# aptitude install console-setup console-setup-mini-
in order to switch from console-setup-mini to console-setup.
Some configuration files are present in /etc/console-setup/ :
$ ls /etc/console-setup/
cached.kmap.gz compose.ISO-8859-13.inc compose.ISO-8859-8.inc
compose.ARMSCII-8.inc compose.ISO-8859-14.inc compose.ISO-8859-9.inc
compose.CP1251.inc compose.ISO-8859-15.inc compose.KOI8-R.inc
compose.CP1255.inc compose.ISO-8859-16.inc compose.KOI8-U.inc
compose.CP1256.inc compose.ISO-8859-1.inc compose.TIS-620.inc
compose.GEORGIAN-ACADEMY.inc compose.ISO-8859-2.inc compose.VISCII.inc
compose.GEORGIAN-PS.inc compose.ISO-8859-3.inc Lat15-Fixed16.psf.gz
compose.IBM1133.inc compose.ISO-8859-4.inc Lat15-TerminusBold16.psf
compose.ISIRI-3342.inc compose.ISO-8859-5.inc remap.inc
compose.ISO-8859-10.inc compose.ISO-8859-6.inc
compose.ISO-8859-11.inc compose.ISO-8859-7.inc
They seem to belong to console-setup-mini:
$ dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -c 1-60
rc console-setup-mini 1.50
OK, let's purge console-setup-mini, in order to clean the system up:
# aptitude purge console-setup-mini
Let's check:
$ dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -c 1-60
$ ls /etc/console-setup/
ls: cannot access /etc/console-setup/: No such file or directory
Wait, but that directory has a name that makes me think it should be
useful to console-setup...
# aptitude reinstall console-setup
And now:
$ ls /etc/console-setup/
cached.kmap.gz Lat15-Fixed16.psf.gz
Hence, after switching from console-setup-mini to console-setup and
purging console-setup-mini, some configuration files that seem to be
useful for both console-setup-mini and console-setup get lost.
This problem was mentioned by me during the discussions of bug
#546983, but it seems to be still unfixed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.30-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii keyboard-configuration 1.50 system-wide keyboard preferences
ii xkb-data 1.7-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information excluded
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