Bug#234355: xlibs: .../locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose: <dead_diaeresis> <space> produces a diaeresis

[Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar>]

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> > No, I said something completely different, you didn't read anything I
> > wrote, did you? :)
> 
> I did read it, but I mostly saw a lot of frustration in an area that I
> don't have a lot of familiarity with, and which is -- in the absence of
> standardization -- a matter of preference.
> 
> > Anyway, forget about the issue. I see you don't have time to think
> > about it and would rather follow blindly a standard or upstream.
> 
> If I don't have enough information about, or experience with, a subject
> to make an informed decision, then I don't make one.
> 
> If I am going to break with a standard, or with upstream, I need a damn
> good reason.  Frankly, you weren't offering one.  You were just angry
> and impatient.  (You appear to still be the latter.)

I thought I was giving four good reasons :). The first one, about
rendering us_intl unable to produce a quotedbl maybe even merited a
serious bug by itself.

You don't seem to question upstream modifications to config files, but
seeing the CVS logs, I don't see them being too careful when commiting
changes. You had the bad luck of picking up the file between the
blunder and the correction :).

See, I was angry and impatient because the changes to /etc/X11/xkb/*
broke my keyboard configuration. They changed rules/xfree86 and I
couldn't configure correctly the keyboard, until, after much struggle,
I learned to use the keycodes/types/symbol system and bypassed the
rules/layout/variant one. And then, when I finally managed to build a
good configuration, saw that <dead_diaresis> <space> was broken too...
:)

You don't want to break with standards or upstream, but what about
breaking with your users? Changes in configuration files, should,
IMHO, be carefully thought and justified... I think you will have a
lot of bug reports related to the keyboard as more people upgrade.

[...]
> > I suppose it will be more productive for me to report further bugs
> > directly to upstream, and then wait some months for you to pick the
> > patches, is that right?
> 
> You can do whichever you like; if you can work productively with the
> Debian package maintainers, make a good case for including a patch, and
> that patch doesn't cause problems, you may find it gets applied.

Ok, I'll try to be clear and cool when reporting further bugs :).

Thanks for your explanatory response.

Bye.