Bug#900395: xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard no longer working after dist-upgrade

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 30/05/18 09:34, Joachim Bauernberger wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-all
> Version: 1:7.7+19
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> rebooted into multiuser.target (to not have the lightdm take over the screen)
> and installed the missing xserver-xorg-input-all package which seemed to have
> been removed on last upgrade ... And after the reboot the keyboard was OK again
> 
> extract from dpkg.log:
> 
> 2018-05-30 07:53:07 status installed xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+19
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 remove xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+19 <none>
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 status half-configured xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64
> 1:7.7+19
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 status half-installed xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+19
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 status config-files xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+19
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 status config-files xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+19
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 status config-files xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+19
> 2018-05-30 07:53:08 status not-installed xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 <none>

>From the log it's not clear to me why xserver-xorg-input-all got removed in the
first place.

Emilio