reassign 606843 xkb-data
severity 606843 important
thanks
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org):
> Hi again,
>
> debian-user-finnish@ added since I need some feedback on that
> fi-specific issue. Context: broken debian installer with Finnish
> keymap, see bugs #606840 and #606843.
>
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (12/12/2010):
> > I know nothing about fi for now, probably a xkb-data bug; will try to
> > look into what happened upstream since the version we're shipping.
>
> I know kung^Wabout fi now.
>
> One workaround:
> - Stick to 'American English' instead of 'Finnish'.
> - Validate that choice, you get 'setxkbmap us' or so.
> - On the next prompts, select 'Go back' until the menu appears. At the
> bottom of the menu, pick 'Execute a shell'.
> - Run this command: 'setxkbmap fi'.
> - Exit the terminal and go back to your installation process.
>
> The (probable) actual bug: Looking into /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fi
> one can see that the section starting with “xkb_symbols "fi" {”,
> there's no "include" besides kpdl and level3, meaning no “basic”
> keys. So you only get the ones which are listed in that section. Which
> breaks “setxkbmap fi fi” so badly.
>
> AFAICT, adding “include latin(type2)” for example as the first line of
> this section makes it possible to get a working keyboard with
> “setxkbmap fi fi”. People may try editing this file from the shell
> (see above for instructions), with the “nano” editor (and then run
> “setxkbamp fi fi”), or in a non-debian-installer environment, to make
> sure it does what people may expect from it.
>
> This bug probably should be reassigned to xkb-data. An upload will
> follow as soon as I get feedback from fi-knowledgeable people.
Reassigning, then.
I think an upload is OK and is worth going into squeeze as all install
with the finnish keymap are badly broken by this bug.
Thanks for your analysis, Cyril.
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