Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-14 Severity: normal The debconf configuration for xserver-xfree86 has a large number of questions that are missing any default option. Some of these are not obvious when xserver-xfree86 is configured using debconf's dialog frontend. For example: Note that mouse buttons in excess of five (counting a scroll wheel as two buttons, one each for "up" and "down", and a third if the wheel "clicks") are not yet supported with this configuration tool. :-) Emulate 3 button mouse? :-) Emulate 3 button mouse? There is no reason why there cannot be a default value for this question. Moreover, there _is_ an implicit default, when using the dialog frontend: Whatever button dialog decides to highlight when it's not specified. Only with the text frontend do boolean and select questions have no default value. So you should go through and add reasonable defaults for all such things. Here is another one, using the string type: Users of U.S. English keyboards should generally enter "pc104". :-) Please select your keyboard model. Please enter a value for the entry. A null entry is not permitted. <proceeds to redislay the whole question> Users of U.S. English keyboards should generally enter "pc104". :-) Please select your keyboard model. So, why not use "pc104" as a default. Better, why not come up with a good default based on the selected keymap in console-tools. Or, you could try to get the value of debian-installer/keymap, which will be available in the debconf db on systems installed by debian-installer. Anyway, there should be a reasonable default provided.
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