Bug#165134: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#165134: xlibs: [xkb] symbol change in us keyboard disables Meta and Compose key)
reopen 165134
thanks
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:41:11PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > The Windows keys on upgrade don't send Meta anymore. Personally I prefer
> > the definition supplied with Debian 3.0 (Left Windows is Meta, Right
> > Windows is Compose).
> >=20
> > This breaks upgrades (and if it isn't going to be changed should be
> > noted on future release notes) and seem somewhat gratuitous.
>
> Oh, please. It doesn't "break upgrades". No package fails to unpack or
> configure due to this.
So in Debian 3.0 Windows keys work as Meta keys. Debian 3.x Windows do
not. Yup, no breakage there.
What is worse I was using debconf to perform configuration file
handling, this kind of change could have been handled transparently by
having pc104 switch to altwin on upgrade.
> It is documented both in the Debian changelog and in the upstream
> changelog.
As I mentioned you should probably forward this as something for the
Debian 3.x release notes. It is the difference between a Changelog file
and a NEWS file.
> Closing this spurious report.
Reopened.
Anand
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