Bug#251423: closed by Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (Re: Bug#248882: Marking wontfix)

[Margarita Manterola <marga@marga.com.ar>]

Hi,

> I don't think anyone is working on this, and I'm not convinced it's very
> useful anyway. If users are going to deviate from the default for the
> language settings they picked right before, I'm quite confident they can
> pick the right keymap, or go back to this question when they later
> notice an issue.

I definitely don't agree with this last sentence, although I'm fine with closing
the bug anyway.  This feature which I requested back in 2004 has since then been
added to graphical environments like GNOME or KDE.  Users do find this useful,
since most users will not know the name of the keyboard they are using, and in
certain countries there are many alternatives which don't mean "deviating" as
here stated.

However, as I said, the feature is now present in KDE and GNOME, and it can be
modified in a much more friendlier way that we could ever have inside d-i (well,
unless we decided to give up on using debconf for the questions). I guess that
most users will only care about the keyboard being set in their graphical
environment instead of the keyboard set at the console, so I think it's fine to
close it as "This would be nice to have, but nobody is working on it and right
now it's less needed as it was 10 years ago".

-- 
Regards,
Marga