Bug#357207: xkb-data: does not work at all after upgrade

[Andreas Kroschel <kro@pobox.com>]

Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


After upgrade to 0.8-1, keyboard layouts in xkb-data do not work at all.
It doesn't make any difference whether they are configured in xorg.conf
or in a setxkbmap command, neither does it matter whether I set a
symlink from /usr/share/X11/xkb to /etc/X11/xkb, as described in the
README file, or if I start the X server with the option “-xkbdir
/usr/share/X11/xkb” and an equivalent XKBPATH environmant variable.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get setxkbmap to say more than “Error loading
new keyboard description”.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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