Bug#693956: Wheezy d-i fails to set german keymap when set on command line

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: minor
Tags: d-i l10n

I'm currently trying to streamline our Debian deployment using
preseeding and I'm having issues setting a German keyboard layout. I use
Wheezy 7.0-beta4.

Goals:
- installer should be English
- the country should be set to Germany (so timezone is okay)
- default locale of the installed system should be English (so program
messages are not translated)
- the keyboard should be set to German layout

I can successfully set that configuration using a full manual
installation but I seem to be missing some setting when using preseed
commands.

I use the following boot options:
debian-installer/language=en debian-installer/country=DE
debian-installer/locale=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=de

The keymap question is not asked anymore (it is when I remove setting
keymap=), but the keymap is still English. I also tried
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=de without success.

This worked fine on Squeeze.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I've seen Bug #693493 but I'm already
using the new option, so I'm at a loss here.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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[Bernhard Schmidt]

It looks like I need to set both debian-installer/keymap=de and keymap=de

keymap=de prevents getting the keyboard layout selection displayed, but
does not seem to do anything regarding the actual layout being set

debian-installer/keymap=de sets the keyboard layout to German but the
selection still gets displayed

Both settings together have the desired effect.

[Samuel Thibault]

reassign 693956 console-setup-udeb
thanks

Bernhard Schmidt, le Thu 22 Nov 2012 08:40:31 +0100, a écrit :
> I use the following boot options:
> debian-installer/language=en debian-installer/country=DE
> debian-installer/locale=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=de
>
> The keymap question is not asked anymore (it is when I remove setting
> keymap=), but the keymap is still English.

Indeed, same here.

I guess there's a mistake in the locale-generated vs preseeded
configuration combination in console-setup-udeb.

Samuel