Bug#721460: debian-installer: Unable to preseed keyboard layout de_CH for Wheezy

[Stephan <smbd@gmx.ch>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n


I'm trying to deploy Debian using preseeding.
Unfortunately I'm not able to set the swiss german keyboard layout.

The append line contains the following settings:
language=en country=CH locale=en_US.UTF-8 debian-installer/keymap=de_CH keymap=de_CH

But the keymap is not set correctly.
If I switch to the second console the file /etc/default/keyboard contains:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

I also tried the setting sg-latin1:
language=en country=CH locale=en_US.UTF-8 debian-installer/keymap=sg-latin1 keymap=sg-latin1

The file /etc/default/keyboard then contains:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT=""
XKBVARIANT="de"
XKBOPTIONS=""

The same setup for swiss french seems to work.
language=en country=CH locale=en_US.UTF-8 debian-installer/keymap=fr_CH keymap=fr_CH

Contents of /etc/default/keyboard:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="ch"
XKBVARIANT="fr"
XKBOPTIONS=""


If the keymap options are not set on the append line and swiss german is selected manually it seems to work.

I used the debian-installer from the i386 netboot:
ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/

I haven't tested any other installer yet.


Thanks,
Stephan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash