Re: Bug#682857: console-setup-udeb: can't preseed keyboard layout=de variant=nodeadkeys

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Anton Zinoviev, le Fri 10 Aug 2012 10:00:27 +0300, a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > What would be needed is to patch debconf into accepting preseed values
> > which are not among the choices.
> 
> This doesn't look as a clean solution to me.  Debconf does here what it 
> is supposed to do.
> 
> What about introducing new templates of string type that can be used in 
> order to preseed arbitrary values in them?

Then they'd appear in the user-presented choices, which we don't want to
clutter.

Another way actually might be to skip the keymap question when layout
and variant are already provided. That'd however need careful tinkering
in the .config script.

Samuel