Bug#671003: keyboard-configuration: installation zeroes /etc/default/keyboard if symbolic link

[Martin Ziegler <ziegler@email.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>]

Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.76
Severity: normal


If /etc/default/keyboard is a symbolic link, the file it points to is
zeroed by the installation of keyboard-configuration.

Regards,

Martin


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.42
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-22.1
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-7+b1

keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.

keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux  1.76
ii  debconf              1.5.42
ii  xkb-data             2.5.1-1

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.13-30
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian0

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd  1.15.3-7

Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
ii  console-setup  1.76

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
ii  console-common  <none>
ii  console-data    2:1.12-1
ii  console-tools   <none>
ii  kbd             1.15.3-7

-- debconf information excluded