I don't know much about this package, but it looks to me like this applies to the version in Debian there. Have you considered sending the patch to them?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to console-setup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578540 Title: setupcon looks for VARIANT in wrong path: /usr/etc/default/ Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On 16.04 amd64: $ ls /etc/default/console-setup* /etc/default/console-setup /etc/default/console-setup.tj $ sudo setupcon -v tj [sudo] password for tj: setupcon: None of /usr/etc/default/keyboard.tj nor /home/tj/.console-setup.tj exists. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1578540/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp