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

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:47:37PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 
> - console-setup/variant: Germany - Eliminate dead keys
>   is not honored:
>   ~ is not a dead key, but ' (the un-shifted `) is not useable at all

As Denis supposed this happened because ckbcomp interpretes "acute" as
"ACUTE ACCENT" (0xb0 in ISO-8859-15) instead of APOSTROPHE (0x27).
There is similar bug for some other accents.

> - 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.

I found a bug which caused the ACM not to be loaded on the first
console.  I suppose on the other consoles it is possible to enter
umlauts.

> - 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!)

I suppose this was because the first console was left in UTF-8 mode
but the loaded keyboard was for ISO-8859-15 (another bug).  The other
consoles are probably in non-UTF-8 mode.

I will prepare a fixed package soon.

Anton Zinoviev