Bug#374070: keymap broken on ibook G4 Japanese keyboard.
tags 374070 +fixed-upstream
thank you
Charles Plessy wrote:
> Alas, the maintainer of xkeyboard-config left Debian, and I was relying
> on his experimental packages to test new upstream releases. I am not
> able to build binary packages by myself with upstream sources: the
> current package in Debian has one big monolithic patch, and I do not
> know what I should keep or discard.
>
> Subliminal message to the new maintainer: swiching to patch managment
> in debian/patches would help a lot. I can try to do this if you are
> interested.
>
>From what I see in git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg/data/xkb-data.git,
it is already using quilt since july 2006.
> So definitely, the keyboard will be missing in Etch. However, I am quite
> confident that jp106 is quite a good aproximation if you do not use the
> eisu and kana keys. The support for these keys has been added in
> upstream's sources, as documented in
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8503. If it works, the next
> step is to make applications such as anthy aware of the keys.
>
Ok, thanks for all the details, tagging as fixed-upstream.
Brice
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