[Bug 1528861] Re: cryptsetup can not coexist with console-common

[Steven Shiau]

I found a side effect if console-common is not installed. There is a problem to run "dpkg-reconfigure console-data", i.e. when it's run, after selecting "Select keymap from arch list", nothing happens. Normally it should ask the "Keyboard layout family", then "Keyboard layout".
This is how to reproduce it:
1. bootstrap an Ubuntu xenial environment:
debootstrap --verbose --arch=amd64 --components=main,universe --exclude=console-common --include=console-data xenial xenial-chroot http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu

2. chroot xenial-chroot

3. dpkg-reconfigure console-data

4. Select "Select keymap from arch list", then it just quits without
asking "Keyboard layout family", and  "Keyboard layout". Nothing
happens.

Any comments about this?
Thanks.

Steven.

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Title:
  cryptsetup can not coexist with console-common

Status in cryptsetup package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The package cryptsetup can not coexist with console-common due to
  cryptsetup depends on plymouth. However, plymouth conflicts with
  console-common, so this makes the cryptsetup can not coexist with
  console-common. This does not happen on Debian Sid because cryptsetup
  on Debian does not depend on plymouth. We need console-common is
  because we need the program install-keymap from console-common for the
  live CD we want to create.

  # cat /etc/lsb-release 
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)"

  # apt-get install cryptsetup console-common
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   cryptsetup : Depends: plymouth but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  Thanks.

  Steven.

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