Bug#357207: xkb-data: does not work at all after upgrade
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:31:41PM +0100, Andreas Kroschel wrote:
> * Denis Barbier:
>
> > I also had trouble with xorg 6.9, and have no idea why. It works fine
> > here with xorg 7.0, which is why I uploaded xkeyboard-config 0.8-1.
> > I hope that 7.0 will be uploaded soon, and thus am not willing to
> > support 6.9.
>
> OK, but if this is a fault of xorg 6.9, xkb-data should depend from
> xserver-xorg >=7.0.x, shouldn't it?
No, because one may use xkb-data without an X server, for instance I
believe that the console keyboard driver for the Hurd uses those
XKB files. This dependency would then be harmful to them.
Xkb-data may conflict with xorg 6.9, but xkb-data is in experimental
and will be available in unstable along with xorg 7.0, thus I believe
that this conflict is not needed. Of course I am not happy with
the current situation, breaking XKB is no fun for users.
If there is a note in /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/README.Debian about
xorg 6.9, do you believe that this is enough to close this bug report?
Denis
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