Bug#469306: xkb-data: rules/sun.lst missing

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+deb@diwi.org>]

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> When running setxkbmap on my sparc with type 5 keyboard (whose layout
> seems broken by other things I am still investigating), trying to run
> setxkbmap results in an error due to a missing sun.lst file:
> 
> execve("/usr/bin/setxkbmap", ["setxkbmap"], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0
> [...]
> readv(3, [{"sun\0type5\0us\0\0\0", 15}, {"\0", 1}], 2) = 16
> open("./rules/sun-C.lst", O_RDONLY)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("./rules/sun.lst", O_RDONLY)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/sun-C.lst", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/sun.lst", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(2, "Couldn\'t find rules file (sun) \n", 32 ) = 32
> exit_group(-4)                          = ?
> 
> When I generate the file with the xml2lst.pl script from the source,
> at least I get the same type of error as when starting the X server and
> not about not finding a rules file.

Here is upstream's comment:

 |   ------- Comment  #1 From Sergey V. Udaltsov  2008-05-01 02:30:16 PST  -------
 | 
 | It is amazing - the file was deleted 3+ years ago, and only now someone
 | noticed..;)
 | 
 | Actually, I am going to remove rules/sun* altogether - because I was told by
 | Sun people (namely, Alan Coopersmith) they are using rules/base* stuff anyway.
 | So would original author of the bug try switching to base ruleset?

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Mohammed Adnène Trojette