Bug#531646: console-setup: Better explanations needed when (re)configuring

[Paul Vojta <vojta@math.berkeley.edu>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.36
Severity: minor

When (re)configuring console-setup (at least with the non-GUI method of
(re)configuring), there is no text prior to the list of keyboard models,
so the user is left to guess whether the question is about keyboard types,
video cards, or what.

Specifically, when (re)configuring from a tty, this is what I see:


Configuring console-setup
-------------------------


  1. A4Tech KB-21
  2. A4Tech KBS-8
  3. A4Tech Wireless Desktop RFKB-23
  4. ACPI Standard
  5. Acer AirKey V
  6. Acer C300
  7. Acer Ferrari 4000
  8. Acer Laptop
  9. Advance Scorpius KI
  10. Amiga
  11. Apple
  12. Apple Laptop
  13. Asus Laptop
  14. Atari TT
  15. Azona RF2300 wireless Internet Keyboard
  16. BTC 5090
  17. BTC 5113RF Multimedia
  18. BTC 5126T
  19. BTC 6301URF
[More]


There needs to be better explanation here.  At the end of the list, there
is the question "Keyboard model:", but by then it is too late because the
correct answer has probably already scrolled by.


The same comment applies to the list of countries.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.28-1     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  xkb-data                      1.6-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools            1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.9-13     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-22     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: USA
  console-setup/unsupported_options: true
  console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
  console-setup/compose: No compose key
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/modelcode: pc101
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize:
  console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/charmap: ISO-8859-1
  console-setup/layoutcode: us
  console-setup/optionscode: ctrl:swapcaps
  console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/layout: USA
  console-setup/variantcode:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  console-setup/altgr: No AltGr key
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/model: Generic 101-key PC
  console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
  console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: Do not change the boot/kernel font