Package: console-setup
Version: 1.189

The keyboard-configuration deb is created as part of this package.

This includes (in the debian subdirectory) the file 'config', which is copied 
to the target system as /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.config, from 
where it is used by 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'.

This file includes the data structure all_kbdnames, which is a database of 
keyboard models and variants with international translations for relevant 
names. This data structure appears to be auto-generated when the package is 
built by running the kbdnames-maker utility included as part of the package.

Under the testing releases of Debian, this data structure is not being 
generated correctly. It includes incorrect translations - many entries are 
incorrectly labelled with Cyrillic script, for example, and most translations 
are in Afrikaans rather than the correct language.

This database is correct in the stable release version 1.164 of the package; it 
is corrupt in version 1.188 and 1.189. Rebuilding the package locally from the 
source archive creates a corrupt database, so it isn't a one-off error in the 
package.

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