Bug#815154: gnome-control-center removes XKBMODEL and XKBOPTIONS from /etc/default/keyboard
Anton Zinoviev
anton at lml.bas.bg
Fri Feb 19 17:59:48 UTC 2016
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:52:25PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
>
> The following is the relevant part in the Policy:
>
> ] If it is desirable for two or more related packages to share a configuration file
> ] and for all of the related packages to be able to modify that configuration file,
> ] then the following should be done:
> ]
> ] One of the related packages (the "owning" package) will manage the configuration
> ] file with maintainer scripts as described in the previous section.
> ]
> ] The owning package should also provide a program that the other packages may use
> ] to modify the configuration file.
>
> In our case the "owning" package is keyboard configuration because this is the
> package which creates /etc/default/keyboard and maintains this file in the
> package scripts.
Please, ignore this. Obviously, it talks about the package configuration scripts
and gnome-control-center is not such a script.
Anton Zinoviev
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