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

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: user pkg-systemd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Control: usertags -1 jessie-backports

On 12 August 2016 at 12:14, Benjamin Drung
<benjamin.drung at profitbricks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:16:25 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>
> wrote:
>> Thanks for the patch.This makes a lot of sense, especially because
>> ENOENT is tolerated everywhere in that file. I have applied this to
>> git with the following commit message attributed to you:
>>
>>     localed: tolerate absence of /etc/default/keyboard
>>
>>     The debian-specific patch to read Debian config files was not
> tolerating
>>     the absence of /etc/default/keyboard. This causes systemd-localed
> to
>>     fail to start on systems where that file isn't populated (like
> embedded
>>     systems without keyboards).
>>
>>     Closes: #833849
>
> I ran into the same bug on Debian testing with 215-17+deb8u4. Can we
> get the fix also into jessie?

Michael usually looks at these. I've tagged accordingly so that it
appears on the list for the next time he looks at jessie updates.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler