Bug#359775: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#359775: console-setup: XKB files are moved in Debian modular X.Org 7.0

Anton Zinoviev anton at lml.bas.bg
Wed Mar 29 10:41:08 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:18:01PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> Yes, as mentioned in this bug report, it has been fixed upstream in
> xkeyboard-config, which will be the default in Debian (binary package
> is xkb-data, whereas XKB files from X.Org pristine are shipped in
> xkb-data-legacy).  These packages are available in experimental, if
> you want to have a look.

I didn't know about these packages.  I will install xkb-data and
prepare new version of console-setup accordingly.

> BTW in ckbcomp, you define
>   my @xdirs = ('/etc/console-setup/ckb',
>                '/etc/X11/xkb',
>                '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb');
> So even if you do not get keymaps from xkb-data, it will be a good idea
> anyway to replace the last two directories by /usr/share/X11/xkb.

OK.  I will add /usr/share/X11/xkb (the last two must remain for
compatibility with older distributions).  I suppose that now the
keyboard data can be removed from the binary package of console-setup.

Anton Zinoviev




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