[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#969965: Bug#969965: text installer: unable to switch keyboard layouts - libkeymap.so.1 missing

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Holger Wansing,

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 04:49:14PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> 
> Switching keyboard in the text installer still fails!
[...]

Thanks for testing and giving useful feedback on the kbd udebs.

> loadkeys: error while loading shared libraries: libkeymap.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file. No such file or directory
> 
> Thus keymap is not set. Please fix loadkeys in udeb.
[...]

(... and once libkeymap.so.1 is available, libkbdfile.so.1 will be
needed next I presume.)

Could you please test rebuilding kbd with --enable-libkeymap to
--disable-libkeymap in debian/rules?

That should as I understand it make sure everything is linked statically
and the shared libraries are not shipped at all (which if we want to
should really happen in a separare properly named binary package anyway).

(Another future TODO would also be to refactor debian/rules to do two
separate flavoured builds with complete configure/build/install passes
for each flavour, to replace the current brittle hack that duplicates
the upstream build system as manual steps in debian/rules udeb build.
Help welcome here as well ofcourse.)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson