Bug#233618: Debconf: Can't set keyboard options back to empty
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:34, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:27:39AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xfree86
> > Version: 4.3.0-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > For some time I have used the keyboard option "altwin:meta_win",
> > but after the upgrade to 4.3 I wanted to (try to) live without it
> > again. With dpkg-reconfigure I could clear the setting in the UI,
> > but the section wasn't cleared in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat;
> > another non-empty value was accepted.
>
> [...]
>
> > * xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options:
>
> I'm afraid I'm not quite understanding you. According to the above,
> the value of the keyboard/options template *is* empty, which seems to
> be what you said you wanted.
>
> Can you spell out the problem in more detail, please?
Yes, according to the debconf information included in my report the
template is empty. But that's only because I
changed /var/cache/debconf/config.dat manually with a text edtior. I
can't set it to empty through the regular debconf frontend.
Michael
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