On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:50:17PM +0200, Daniel Mentz wrote:
> The most interesting information from your log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> is
>
> "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap"
>
> I had the same problem and could solve it by installing the xlibs package.
> Though the description of xlibs says that you don't need that package for
> Debian 3.1 (sarge),
It does not[1].
Package: xlibs
Section: libs
Architecture: all
Depends: libice6, libsm6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxft1, libxi6, libxmu6, libxmuu1, libxp6, libxpm4, libxrandr2, libxt6, libxtrap6, libxtst6, xlibs-data, ${misc:Depends}
Conflicts: xbase, xlib, xpm4g, fvwm-common, qcad (<< 1.4.6-1), xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xcontrib (<< 4.0), xlib6g (<< 4.0), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xsm (<< 4.0)
Replaces: xbase, xlib, xpm4g, fvwm-common, qcad (<< 1.4.6-1), xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xcontrib (<< 4.0), xlib6g (<< 4.0), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xsm (<< 4.0)
Description: X Window System client libraries metapackage and XKB data
This package smooths upgrades from Debian 3.0 by depending on the individual
library packages into which each shared object formerly contained in this
package has been split.
.
This package is only depended upon by packages that haven't yet been compiled
against the new shared library packages.
.
This package also contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard
Extension (XKB). Other architecture-independent data used by X libraries can
be found in the xlibs-data package.
Moreover, the package's extended description hasn't changed in quite some
time[2]:
1 branden Package: xlibs
1 branden Section: libs
1044 branden Architecture: all
1044 branden Depends: libice6, libsm6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxft1, libxi6, libxmu6, libxmuu1, libxp6, libxpm4, libxrandr2, libxt6, libxtrap6, libxtst6, xlibs-data, ${misc:Depends}
1249 branden Conflicts: xbase, xlib, xpm4g, fvwm-common, qcad (<< 1.4.6-1), xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xcontrib (<< 4.0), xlib6g (<< 4.0), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xsm (<< 4.0)
1249 branden Replaces: xbase, xlib, xpm4g, fvwm-common, qcad (<< 1.4.6-1), xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xcontrib (<< 4.0), xlib6g (<< 4.0), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xsm (<< 4.0)
1044 branden Description: X Window System client libraries metapackage and XKB data
1044 branden This package smooths upgrades from Debian 3.0 by depending on the individual
1044 branden library packages into which each shared object formerly contained in this
1044 branden package has been split.
1 branden .
1044 branden This package is only depended upon by packages that haven't yet been compiled
1044 branden against the new shared library packages.
1 branden .
1044 branden This package also contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard
1044 branden Extension (XKB). Other architecture-independent data used by X libraries can
1044 branden be found in the xlibs-data package.
1044 branden
We can furthermore see that revision 1044 was committed over six months
ago, and was itself a merge[3], which means that the actual current language
of the extended description is older still.
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r1044 | branden | 2004-02-16 12:40:33 -0500 (Mon, 16 Feb 2004) | 7 lines
Merge revisions 1042:HEAD from branches/4.3.0/sid-branched-properly onto
trunk.
NOTE: This wasn't a pure merge; there were 67 files with conflicts that
were resolved, and some obsolescent files (on the trunk, not new from the
merge) were deleted.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please do not spread disinformation on this mailing list.
(I do admit that the "only depended upon" phrase is overbroad. Things
which directly parse XKB data files should also depend on this package --
while there are almost vanishingly few of those compared to packages that
have a shared library dependency on one of the libraries formerly in xlibs,
the language could be more precise. The fact remains that the package
description in no way asserts that "you don't need [it] for Debian 3.1".)
[1] svn cat svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk/debian/control
[2] svn blame svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk/debian/control
[3] svn log -r 1044 svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk/debian/control
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