Bug#955215: keyboard-configuration: fails to set correct keyboard layout

[Emmanuel Mie <alchimy1000@gmail.com>]

Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.193~deb10u1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

I booted Debian Live Standard on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop with fr layout (azerty) and chose 'with localisation' at boot and selected French.
But when I get the prompt in the shell, the keyboard is in qwerty mode (it's no fun typing this message) and the accented characters are not displayed correctly (that makes dpkg-reconfigure interface particularly not sexy).
  
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

sudo apt update -> everything up to date

I followed the instructions from Debian wiki

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

I chose all options for French keyboard layout (listed below)

sudo service keyboard-setup restart

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Nothing at all : no change of layout

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

That my kb layout be changed to a civilized one :-)

I also checked that the locales are fr_FR UTF-8 and they are.

(this is the first time I file a bug report, and I'm very sorry to bother you ; I'm usually able to fix things on my own, but I can't figure out
what's going on herem and it seems important : Debian IS reliable so if it says it's gonna boot with french locales, then it has to !)  

bugreport told me to try a newer version of keyboard-configuration, from testing or unstable, but shouldn't this be fixed in stable ?

By the way, thanks and bravo to all the maintainers and the people behind Debian for the huge work and this fantastic distro.

Most friendly,
Emmanuel Mie

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.71
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-3+b4

keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.

keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux  1.193~deb10u1
ii  debconf              1.5.71
ii  xkb-data             2.26-2

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.28-10
ii  lsb-base  10.2019051400

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.56+nmu1
ii  kbd                  2.0.4-4

Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
ii  console-setup  1.193~deb10u1

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
pn  console-common        <none>
pn  console-data          <none>
pn  console-tools         <none>
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  kbd                   2.0.4-4
ii  systemd               241-7~deb10u3

-- debconf information:
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
  console-setup/charmap47: ISO-8859-15
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
  console-setup/codesetcode: guess
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
  keyboard-configuration/other:
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
  console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
  keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
* keyboard-configuration/layout: Français
  keyboard-configuration/modelcode: latitude
  console-setup/codeset47: Guess optimal character set
* keyboard-configuration/model: Dell Latitude (portable)
  keyboard-configuration/variantcode: azerty
  keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: fr
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Français - Français (azerty)
  keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/guess_font: