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

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

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:36:28AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Well, my idea was not to ask questions when 

keyboard-configuration/modelcode,
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode, 
keyboard-configuration/variantcode and 
keyboard-configuration/optionscode

are preseeded.  I suppose this is analogous to what already exists in 
the config script and is used by keyboard-configuration in order to 
avoid asking questions when /etc/default/keyboard contains unsupported 
by the config script configuration.  I haven't looked carefully into 
specifics of the code used only by the udeb, but can't you simply use 
the variable $unsupported_layout even when $is_not_debian_installer is 
false?

Anton Zinoviev