Bug#833849: systemd: localed fails to start if /etc/default/keyboard is missing

[Simon McVittie]

Package: systemd
Version: 231-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

I'm using systemd on an embedded Debian derivative that doesn't routinely
populate /etc/default/keyboard (our target devices don't normally have
keyboards, so it would be meaningless). On this system, localed doesn't
start when activated via D-Bus:

    systemd-localed[9146]: Failed to read locale data: No such file or directory

This appears to be because the upstream code to load a Red Hat-specific
X11 keyboard configuration file tolerates it not existing, but the
Debian patch to load /etc/default/keyboard instead does not tolerate
ENOENT.

To fix this, I applied the patch
0001-x11_read_data-tolerate-absence-of-etc-default-keyboa.patch
(this is a forward-port to 231, the one I initially used was for an
earlier systemd version and touched the same code in a different file)
just after Use-Debian-specific-config-files.patch in the patch
series, then squashed it into that commit to get the attached
0001-Use-Debian-specific-config-files.patch (again, this is a
forward-port).

I'm not attaching a proposed debdiff because the resulting diff between
diffs is basically impossible to review :-)

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