Bug#1004924: xkb: Alt key ceased working after last update

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 11:26:16AM -0600, Carlos wrote:
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 	updating packages with apt
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 	press key combinations that involve Alt keys. For example: Alt + . used to produce a middle dot, and I have a shortcut defined with Super+Alt+T, which opens thunderbird. The most simple possible test I could imagine was opening xev, and pressing different keys. The only one I could find not working are Alt keys (no events are produced).
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 	No keypress events are produced with the alt keys
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 	Keypress events should be produced when pressing Alt keys.
> 
Hi,

Please share more information about your system, desktop environment, setup,
config, relevant logs.  Also, after which specific update did the problem
start, and can you pin down which exact package caused it (e.g. by downgrading
individual packages that were part of that update)?

Cheers,
Julien