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Bug#487951: marked as done (xkb-data: Please document possible layouts, variants and options)

Your message dated Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:32:24 +0000
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and subject line Bug#487951: fixed in xkeyboard-config 2.1-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #487951,
regarding xkb-data: Please document possible layouts, variants and options
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Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.9-4
Priority: wishlist

Are the possible keyboard layouts, variants and options provided by
XKB documented somewhere?

After about half an hour of searching on my Debian etch system, I
finally found the file
  /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
which contains a nice (if a bit brief) list of the variants and
options. (I assume that is a complete list, since it looks as if it is
automatically generated.)

On hindsight, I perhaps should have started by reading
  /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/README.config.gz
which says:
  2.4  Basic Global Options
  
  See rules/*.lst files.
which, I guess, is a reference to the above file - but the full path
would be quite helpful, especially for a less technical user...

Would it be possible to add the full path to the above text? Or
perhaps to README.Debian if changing this (I think) upstream file is a
problem?

It would also be nice if keyboard layout-related manual pages had some
kind of reference to where the possible settings are documented.
Perhaps adding the file name "/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst" to
the SEE ALSO section of some keyboard-related manual pages like
keyboard(4) and setxkbmap(1) would be helpful.

Another idea would be to automatically generate a manual page out of
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst (or from where that is generated),
and then linking to that from the above manual pages. (This would
perhaps be cleaner since most other X server options, like the options
for various graphics cards, are documented in manual pages, and it
would solve the "full path vs. unchanged upstream file" problem.)

Hmm, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" appears to give me a list of a
couple of the possible options and variants - perhaps it could also
say that the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst (or the
autogenerated manual page I suggested) contains a full list?

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-=- Rjs -=- rjs@cs.hut.fi, Riku.Saikkonen@hut.fi

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Source: xkeyboard-config
Source-Version: 2.1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xkeyboard-config, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xkb-data-udeb_2.1-1_all.udeb
  to main/x/xkeyboard-config/xkb-data-udeb_2.1-1_all.udeb
xkb-data_2.1-1_all.deb
  to main/x/xkeyboard-config/xkb-data_2.1-1_all.deb
xkeyboard-config_2.1-1.diff.gz
  to main/x/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_2.1-1.diff.gz
xkeyboard-config_2.1-1.dsc
  to main/x/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_2.1-1.dsc
xkeyboard-config_2.1.orig.tar.gz
  to main/x/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config_2.1.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 487951@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (supplier of updated xkeyboard-config package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:11:58 +0100
Source: xkeyboard-config
Binary: xkb-data xkb-data-udeb
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.1-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Description: 
 xkb-data   - X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data
 xkb-data-udeb - X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data (udeb)
Closes: 487951
Changes: 
 xkeyboard-config (2.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     + Beware of the possible regressions, we're going 3 releases forward
       at once.
   * Rebuild ChangeLog using “git log” on the upstream branch. The NEWS
     file is a bit too lightweight. As a reminder, it's installed as:
       /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/changelog.gz
   * Point to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst in README.Debian, thanks to
     Riku Saikkonen for the suggestion (Closes: #487951).
   * Great debian/rules cleanup:
     + Remove deb target, dpkg-buildpackage's -i does the right thing, and
       “-rfakeroot” has been the default for a while.
     + Remove dir target, no longer used.
     + Stop removing rules/compat/base.l[2-4]*.part, they are no longer
       generated automatically.
     + More generically, stop removing files which weren't cleaned, that's
       been fixed.
     + Call touch in clean to restore the empty file which gets deleted by
       quilt when unpatching rules/base.o_k.part; this avoid its showing up
       as “deleted” in “git status”.
     + Try and keep the udeb's size low: Replace multiple spaces with a
       single space character. For this version, installed size goes down
       from 3.5MB to 3.0MB.
     + Additionally, remove comments starting with “//”. Down to 2.6MB, yay.
     + Also don't ship the newly-added pkg-config file in the udeb.
     + Stop removing $(xkb_base)/compiled, it's no longer created.
     + Stop passing --disable-xkbcomp-symlink to configure, it's gone.
   * Merge xsfbs/debian-unstable, which helps avoiding rebuilds.
   * Update download URL in watch file.
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