Bug#815154: gnome-control-center removes XKBMODEL and XKBOPTIONS from /etc/default/keyboard

Anton Zinoviev anton at lml.bas.bg
Fri Feb 19 17:59:48 UTC 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:52:25PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 
> The following is the relevant part in the Policy:
> 
> ] If it is desirable for two or more related packages to share a configuration file 
> ] and for all of the related packages to be able to modify that configuration file, 
> ] then the following should be done:
> ]
> ] One of the related packages (the "owning" package) will manage the configuration 
> ] file with maintainer scripts as described in the previous section.
> ]
> ] The owning package should also provide a program that the other packages may use 
> ] to modify the configuration file.
> 
> In our case the "owning" package is keyboard configuration because this is the 
> package which creates /etc/default/keyboard and maintains this file in the 
> package scripts.

Please, ignore this.  Obviously, it talks about the package configuration scripts 
and gnome-control-center is not such a script.

Anton Zinoviev



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