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Bug#579185: x11-xserver-utils: weird xkeystone executable



Hello,

Given that xkeystone:
    * does not work by default, without installing additionnal packages;
    * does not work well without modification;
    * does not seem to do anything useful;
    * has no documentation and nobody seems to know what it is supposed
      to do;
it seems that it is useful to nobody and only triggers questions such as “what it that utility?”, “why does it not work?”, etc. Considering its advantages (none) vs. its disadvantages (causes questions and bug reports), perhaps the most appropriate course of action to deal with it would be to simply drop it, and patch the other manpages like xrandr(1) to stop referring to its non-existant manpage, what do you think?

It seems upstream provided some kind of experimental, non-functional and non-documented tool, but I do not see why we should distribute that as a regular executable…

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