Bug#410903: xkb-data: configuration files have been moved to /usr/share
severity 410903 important
thanks
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:37:42PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> I think that it is clear that these files actually are configuration
> files. This has been discussed for example in #326637. Reading through
> this bug, one gets the impression that everyone who spoke up agreed that
> it makes sense, and is actually done, to customize these files (or maybe
> rather, to add customization files in these directories, see below).
Sorry, a file is not automatically accorded config file status just because
someone wants to edit it. It's not necessarily an RC bug for particular
aspects of a package's behavior to not be under direct user control by way
of config files, even if this was previously the case.
In my own experience, maintaining divergent xkb configs isn't particularly
practical because upstream's organization of them just isn't stable and the
indices (e.g., symbols.dir) are irritating to maintain.
I think that at least the .dir files ought to find their way back to
/etc/X11/xkb to let users add their own configs, but I don't think this
should be considered RC -- and that we are in fact better off not changing
this for etch, given the risk of error.
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