Bug#720439: console-setup: /etc/default/console-setup values overwritten on upgrade

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.95
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

A few days ago an update to console-setup arrived in Sid.  I have chosen not to
use the default fonts on my consoles and have set FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to empty
strings only to have them replaced by other values.  The result is a poor quality
font on my hardware and I once again must edit console-setup and reboot for my
chosen settings to take effect.

The package should either not touch locally applied settings, where I presume
/etc/default are to be set, or prompt the administrator to approve the changes
(if the package does so but is not prompting me, a gentle reminder on how to
enable such notifications will be welcome).

Thanks.

- Nate


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.95
ii  debconf                 1.5.50
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.95
ii  xkb-data                2.5.1-3

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.17-92
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.50
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-43
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-7+b1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd                     1.15.5-1
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.95

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn  console-common  <none>
pn  console-data    <none>
pn  console-tools   <none>
ii  kbd             1.15.5-1

-- debconf information:
  console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US)
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
  console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
  keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/other:
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16