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Bug#669935: Debian Installer does apply keymap used during installation to resulting initramfs



Quoting Sebastian Pipping (sebastian@pipping.org):

> > The problem is the same is users setup their console
> > keymap to be something else than US *after the system installation*.
> 
> Jérémy seems to understand that sentence but honetsly I don't.  Could
> you elaborate?

Sure.

You install Debian by choosing a US keymap.

Then, on the installed system, you reconfigure console-setup
(dpkg-reconfigure console-setup) and pick for instance a German
keymap.

Then, the initramfs will also lack a german keymap to be setup when
prompting you for the encrypted partition password.

Which, in short, confirms that the problem is not in the installer
itself (that does nothing wrt initramfs) but in the tools that create
the initramfs....or maybe in console-setup

OTOH, when looking at "dpkg -L initramfs-tools", I see a file named
"/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap" that is apparently meant
exactly for this..:)


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