Bug#333960: config script should honour preseeded debconf ..

Package: xserver-xorg

Hi,

the config script sets debconf variable
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options without actually
checking for existing preseeded value and therefore overwrides it
headlessly.

You can trigger this easily on new installs in Czech where
localization-config sets
.../keyboard/layout to us,cz_qwerty
.../keyboard/options to grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll

but after this config we end up with empty .../keyboard/options, thus
locking users in foreign keyboard layout.


On a similar note, dpkg-reconfigure initializes value of
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout with value based on
installation keyboard and not with current debconf value, which I
consider rather strange.

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:44:45PM +0200, Miroslav Kure wrote:
> the config script sets debconf variable
> xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options without actually
> checking for existing preseeded value and therefore overwrides it
> headlessly.
>
> You can trigger this easily on new installs in Czech where
> localization-config sets
> .../keyboard/layout to us,cz_qwerty
> .../keyboard/options to grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll
>
> but after this config we end up with empty .../keyboard/options, thus
> locking users in foreign keyboard layout.

These days we do not have localization-config anymore, but when
preseeding these keyboard options in the d-i preseed file, everything
works as expected (i.e. xorg.conf is generated with preseeded values),
therefore I propose to close the bug.

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Miroslav Kure


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