diff -Nru console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.5/CHANGES console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.6/CHANGES
--- console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.5/CHANGES	2018-08-08 22:50:48.000000000 +0000
+++ console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.6/CHANGES	2018-08-08 23:32:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.6) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * keyboard-configuration.config: Only treat missing XKBOPTIONS as empty.
+
+ -- Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:32:23 -0600
+
 console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.5) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * keyboard-configuration.config: While sourcing config files to re-seed
diff -Nru console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.5/debian/changelog console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.6/debian/changelog
--- console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.5/debian/changelog	2018-08-08 22:50:48.000000000 +0000
+++ console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.6/debian/changelog	2018-08-08 23:32:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.6) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * keyboard-configuration.config: Only treat missing XKBOPTIONS as empty.
+
+ -- Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:32:23 -0600
+
 console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.5) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * keyboard-configuration.config: While sourcing config files to re-seed
diff -Nru console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.5/debian/keyboard-configuration.config console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.6/debian/keyboard-configuration.config
--- console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.5/debian/keyboard-configuration.config	2018-08-08 22:50:48.000000000 +0000
+++ console-setup-1.178ubuntu2.6/debian/keyboard-configuration.config	2018-08-08 23:32:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@
 read_config() {
     [ -r $1 ] || exit 0
     . $1 || true
-    for var in XKBMODEL XKBLAYOUT XKBVARIANT XKBOPTIONS; do
+    # Treat missing XKBOPTIONS as empty, other vars have sane defaults:
+    for var in XKBOPTIONS; do
         if ! grep "^ *${var}=" $1 >/dev/null; then
             eval ${var}=""
         fi