Bug#438940: xkb-data: package overwrite user-modified files without notice

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+deb@diwi.org>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007, Drew Parsons wrote:
> For some reason I find I still have the old xlibs package installed.
> Curiously it seemed to place the xkb data files in
> /etc/X11/xkb/symbols. 
> 
> Perhaps we should alter xkb-data to do the same again?  
> 
> (we could symlink from /usr/share/X11/xkb to /etc/X11/xkb, 
> or symlink specific subdirs as appropriate)

An old preinst (still present on Ubuntu) create symlinks from
/etc/X11/xkb to /usr/share/X11/xkb.

But now, the problem is some people modified files in /etc and other
in /usr. So the merge is impossible. I guess we will have to remove
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols completely some day in the future.

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Mohammed Adnène Trojette