[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#524057: kbd: get rid of the read_keymaps_fmt-related divergences

[Michael Schutte]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.15-2
Severity: normal

Since 2004 (see <http://bugs.debian.org/251550>), Debian’s kbd has used
a patch called read_keymaps_fmt to make Unicode and KTYP/KVAL keysyms
more compatible to each other.  This divergence has since led to
difficulties in fixing bugs (read_keymaps_fmt xors some things 0xf000
which the original kbd does not, which flips a few inequality
comparisons, etc.).

I personally don’t fully understand read_keymaps_fmt (well, I do grasp
it, but not in a way that makes me feel completely comfortable with it),
so in order to know about its implications, a clean-up or rewrite is
probably appropriate.  I’ll try to come up with something as fast as I
can.

This bug will be closed when this difference between upstream’s and our
kbd trees is gone.  In other words, I hope that upstream accepts a
patch.

-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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