[Bug 1576893] Please test proposed package

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted console-setup into xenial-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-
setup/1.108ubuntu15.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

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Title:
  console colors are not correctly applied

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in console-setup source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Debconf prompts are incredibly ugly on virtual console; colors are off from the "official" aubergine background. This applies to Ubuntu specifically since other flavors may specify a different color scheme that may not be affected.

  [Test case]
  1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf

  [Regression potential]
  None. This only applies to the display colors for a console, and only on a linux virtual console (ie. not a terminal).

  ---

  At least on Xenial and onwards, our color scheme for the VTs is not
  being applied, since setvtrgb is not getting run on boot (it's still
  only an upstart job).

  Porting setvtrgb to a systemd unit makes the pretty colors appear, and
  I can get my debconf/newt prompts back with an aubergine background.

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