Bug#956501: console-setup: keyboard layout in /etc/default/keyboard is not set correctly on startup

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.195
Severity: normal

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a problem with console-setup or
keyboard-configuration.

~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard 
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,il"
XKBVARIANT="dvorak,"
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:alt_shift_toggle,ctrl:swapcaps"

BACKSPACE="guess"

Until recently, these settings were all correctly set on system startup,
but the keyboard layout settings are currently not set correctly on
startup:

~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us
variant:    dvorak
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:alt_shift_toggle,ctrl:swapcaps

As per 'man 5 keyboard', this can be corrected by directing the system
to (re)read /etc/default/keyboard:

~# udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,il
variant:    dvorak,
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:alt_shift_toggle,ctrl:swapcaps

But why is this not happening correctly on startup, requiring manual
intervention?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.195
ii  debconf                 1.5.73
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.195
ii  xkb-data                2.29-2

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.30-4
ii  lsb-base  11.1.0

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.73
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-4

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers     1.57
ii  initscripts             2.96-3
ii  kbd                     2.0.4-4
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.195

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>
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  kbd                   2.0.4-4
ii  systemd               245.4-3

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