[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: pkg-kbd project on Alioth to maintain kdb Debian package

[Denis Barbier]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:30:36PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:42:07AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmmm, I did try that.  Some error messages were displayed because
> > > <shortDescription> tag has been added, but AFAICT it seemed to
> > > work anyway.  The attached patch shows how I did test that.
> > 
> > I don't remember what the problem was exactly, but it fails with some
> > of the keyboards in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc.  With most of them it
> > works.
> 
> You were right - the only problem was that xmlreader didn't recognise
> some tags (shortDescription and _description) and that there are
> indeed bugs in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml.  Ckbcomp seams to work
> flawlessly.
> 
> Today I updated console-setup to work properly with the Xorg files.
> 
> I noticed that the xlibs package has too many dependencies.  Thats why
> the console-setup binary package has to include its own version of
> /etc/X11/xkb.

Okay, this will be fixed very soon, Debian X maintainers want to drop
these dependencies.

Denis