[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#352449: console-setup: seriously broken

[Norbert Preining]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.0
Severity: serious

Hi!

I cannot get console-setup *not* to mess up completely the console,
these are the problems:

- console-setup/variant: Germany - Eliminate dead keys
  is not honored:
  ~ is not a dead key, but ' (the un-shifted `) is not useable at all

- the settings do not affect all terminals, only the one I am logged in
  and call dpkg-reconfigure, so I cannot enter any umlauts in any other
  console thant the one I called setupconf from.

- Strange effect (hard to repeat, but it happens sometimes), after
  reconfiguring the console, suddenly some programs cannot be found
  (less /etc/X11/xorg.conf: bash: less command not found, but it is
  there!)

Otherwise, I really appreciate the program, I really missed something
like this!!!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc2-mm1
Locale: LANG=de_AT at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_AT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.16-2     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-60 Linux console and font utilities

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: Germany - Eliminate dead keys
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
* console-setup/fontsize: 16
  console-setup/layoutcode: de
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: Lat15
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: TerminusBoldVGA
* console-setup/compose: Menu key
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/charmap: ISO-8859-15
  console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch,compose:menu
* console-setup/layout: Germany
  console-setup/variantcode: nodeadkeys
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC