Bug#274103: xlibs: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 broke Meta for Emacs

[Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>]

Package: xlibs
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
Severity: normal

Once upon a time, things were nice.  My Alt key produced Alt things,
my Leftwin key produced Meta things, Rightwin was Compose/Multi-key
and Menu was Menu.  So I started binding useful commands on Alt-* in
Emacs.

Then X evolved, and Alt-stuff started producing Meta-stuff.  Bummer.
Then things evolved some more, and Leftwin-stuff produced
Hyper-Super-Meta-stuff.  Bummer again, but Emacs was still usable
(even though it lacked my Alt-* shortcuts).

Then came along the dreaded 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8, last night.  Its changelog
mentioned stuff related to altwin, so I was delighted.  I promptly
upgraded, restarted X and Emacs, and was shocked to discover that it
was more broken than the day before: Alt-stuff is back to generating
Alt-stuff, which is cool since I can now goto-line and boxquote-region
and the like in one key combo, but Leftwin-stuff is still generating
the hubristic Hyper-Super-Meta-stuff combo.  So I'm left with an Emacs
without a Meta key, which means I have to use Esc+w, Esc+q, Esc+y,
etc.  I'd like it if I could go back to §1 please...

Relevant info (I hope):

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps,altwin:left_meta_win,compose:rwin"
EndSection

(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) XKB: model: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
(**) XKB: layout: "fr"
(**) Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps,altwin:left_meta_win,compose:rwin"
(**) XKB: options: "ctrl:nocaps,altwin:left_meta_win,compose:rwin"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
[...]
(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver

Thanks,

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8

Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft1                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxmuu1                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii  libxp6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System printing extension
ii  libxpm4                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library
ii  libxrandr2                4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  libxtrap6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol-trapping 
ii  libxtst6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System event recording an
ii  xlibs-data                4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client data

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