Bug#1038762: fixed in systemd 253-4

[Michael Tokarev]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:51:55 +0000 Debian FTP Masters 
<ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:

> Changes:
>  systemd (253-4) unstable; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * Stop localed from writing to /etc/default/keyboard and symlink it to
>      /etc/vconsole.conf. Integration is not set up for now, but GDM needs
>      to query the configured values. Allow reading, but disallow setting
>      keymaps. (Closes: #1038762)

Hi!

This results in a dangling symlink /etc/vconsole.conf => default/keyboard
when no keyboard-configuration package (which is definitely not
required) is not installed.  And there's no way to remove this
dangling symlink for the user either, since it gets recreated.
Or alternatively, with a read-only root filesystem, it will be
systemd-tmpfiles who reports failure to run.

Shouldn't keyboard-configuration (who owns default/keyboard)
own this symlink as well as its target?

Thanks,

/mjt