Bug#522635: xserver-xorg-input-kbd: alt-gr doesn't work for some characters

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 21:13:10 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

> reassign 522635 xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.5-1
> thanks
> 
> * Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> [2010-01-16 20:45:05 CET]:
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 20:33:43 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > >  If there is *anything* we could help to track down this issue like
> > > debugging or testing, or if you actually do need further informations,
> > > pretty please let us know. Don't let the bugreport sit around and grow
> > > dust like that, I doubt that this issue will magically go away.
> >
> > File the bug upstream at bugs.freedesktop.org,
> 
>  That would include creating an account in there, which just doesn't
> scale from a user's point of view. Such requests rather result in issues
> not getting filed instead of having them noticed. It would be pretty
> helpful if the poeple that actually do know the way where and how
> upstream wants their bugs could forward it. It differs from project to
> project and I'm not really interested in dig around again and again
> everywhere.  :/
> 
Actually, it scales a whole lot better than having 1 package maintainer
deal with 1000 bugs and figure out what every submitter wants on their
own.  Since I don't know what this bug is about, I'm not going to be
submitting it upstream.

> > and either try to track it down or hope it doesn't sit around and grow
> > idle there too.
> 
>  I am willing to try to track it down if someone could actually tell me
> where and how to start off with. See this as an offer to track it down,
> but I'm running out of ideas and tries to work around. Things are
> changing in big in xorg these days, I still need to dig through the
> bugreports about the tap button issues to be able to find out what I
> seemingly am doing wrong at that edge too to get back tapping...
> 
> > FWIW the kbd driver is not used on linux in testing and unstable (by
> > default), so if the bug is still reproducible there it should probably
> > be reassigned to xserver-xorg-core.
> 
>  Reassigning it then. Just out of curiosity, isn't that the group of
> people? :)
> 
EPARSE.

Cheers,
Julien