[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#562703: Bug#562703: qemu-dm missing from xen-utils-3.4

[Thomas Goirand]

----- Original message -----
> # apt-file search en-us | grep keymap
> faumachine-data: /usr/share/faumachine/keymaps/en-us
> kvm: /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us
> qemu: /usr/share/qemu/keymaps/en-us
> qemu-kvm: /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us
> qemu-system: /usr/share/qemu/keymaps/en-us
> rdesktop: /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-us
> xen-utils-3.2-1: /usr/share/xen-3.2-1/qemu/keymaps/en-us

Gosh! Even worth than what I thought...

> So by the look of it the keymaps were in xen-utils-3.2 but are no longer in
> xen-utils-3.4

Which is quite right because:
- having it shipped 7 times in the distro is so ugly already
- the xen package itself doesn't include qemu-dm so it doesn't make sense to have it in

> I did this to link the keymaps into those provided by qemu-system
>
> # cd /usr/share
> # mkdir xen
> # cd xen/
> # ln -s ../qemu
> # ls -ld /usr/share/xen/qemu
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-05-21 08:18 /usr/share/xen/qemu -> ../qemu
>
> And, presto, the domain starts and appears to be all working :-)

Great, that means the issue is very easy to debug. Unfortunately, I don't see anyone working on a separate package for the keymaps. I guess we shall ping everyone here. I will do that tonight, as I really want to fix this very bad situation. I guess that best would be to open a thread in -devel which I will do.

Thanks again for the feedback,

Thomas