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

[Denis Barbier]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:47:37PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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

Anton, I do not know if this is related, but your files contain
   key <AE12>  { [  acute, grave, cedilla, cedilla ] };
but in X, acute should be replaced by apostrophe.

> - 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.

This is normal, users cannot modify other ttys unless they are also
logged into them.

> - 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!)

Hey, that sounds indeed quite unbelievable ;)

Denis