Bug#561185: xkb-data: support custom layouts
Package: xkb-data
Version: 1.7-1
Severity: wishlist
Since all xkb data moved from /etc to /usr, upgrades
feel free to overwrite changes made to layouts. I want
my custom layout (at least while #530820 is being
pondered), and I don't want to modify the
files under /usr -- which I must modify again,
manually, with every upgrade.
I note bug #497341 and its upstream offshoot,
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20743
If I read that bug correctly, upstream's attitude
towards custom layouts is somewhere between "no"
and "it's downstream's business". Or perhaps I am
missing something, and it is just missing docs; but
downstream's https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/297428
would seem to indicate otherwise.
Thanks,
Shai.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
-- no debconf information
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