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Bug#167370: xlibs: please include xkb files for the Happy Hacking keyboard



On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:46:20AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:29:57PM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> [...]
> >  I might still have a copy of the file lying around somewhere (but the
> > machine with the HHKB is currently not working, so I can't trivially
> > find it), but obviously if there is a reason for it being removed then
> > we should find out why first :-).
> 
> I looked at these files, and this keyboard uses standard us definition,
> only geometry is updated.  Are these files really useful for you, or
> are they just cosmetics to let some apps provide an accurate keyboard
> snapshot?  In the latter case, I am not sure that adding a patch to
> xfree86 Debian packages is worth the pain, maybe you should submit these
> files upstream?

I don't have any objection to us applying such a patch.

It's also worth noting that right now we don't really *have* an upstream
for XFree86, thanks to the XFree86 Project, Inc.'s decision to relicense
the source distribution under restrictive, GPL-incompatible terms.

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