Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:25:37 +0200

Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> That’s exactly what it does, see (shepherd comm).
>>
>> Perhaps we just need to have the installer service depend on ‘syslogd’,
>> at which point nothing goes to /dev/console?
>
> Heh, I read it too fast, sorry :) The issue was in fact that we are
> calling `start-service' and `stop-service' from `apply-locale' in (gnu
> installer), and printing shepherd messages to shepherd-message-port
> which is stderr by default.
>
> Fixed on wip-installer-help.

Awesome.

Do you think that branch is ready for a merge?  Or did you want to
further discuss some of the changes?  Florian seemed to agree that it’s
a good thing.

Ludo’.