[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524098: xserver-xorg: dependency on console-setup broke keyboard settings

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:16 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:15:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, that works (at least lshal now returns the correct values; I have
> > > long-running jobs so I can't log out to test if X receives them). From
> > > what little I understand from HAL, the call to debian-setup-keyboard
> > > happens _after_ procesing the .fdi files, so it will always overwrite
> > > any custom configuration unconditionally.
> > > 
> > that still sounds like a hal bug to me.
> 
> I don't think so. You specify in a config file that it should run a
> script that updates the configuration, but you expect that script to run
> _before_ parsing the config files?
> 
i expect that whatever's in /etc (configuration) overrides whatever's
in /usr (defaults), yes.

> > 
> > > You should probably not only check for the existence of the input.xkb.*
> > > keys, but also that all keys still have the default value. Probably you
> > > should remove the xkb-specific part from
> > > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi, and
> > 
> > that's shipped by hal, so xserver-xorg can't do anything about that.
> 
> Yes you can. You can request the HAL maintainers to disable that script
> (IMHO the directory is called "OS vendor" for a reason), and then depend
> on the corrected HAL version.
> 
sigh.  that would still mean a change in hal first, wouldn't it?

> > > debian-setup-keyboard should only set the input.xkb.* properties if they
> > > are _all_ empty (otherwise it would be difficult to distinguish the
> > > "layout is US by default" and the "layout has been explicitely set to
> > > US" cases).
> > > 
> > i don't think debian-setup-keyboard can distinguish between 'layout set
> > by hal's 10-keymap.fdi' and 'layout set by the user's config' currently.
> 
> I've just described how you can do it in my previous mail.

not without a change in hal.  hence "currently".  so no, you didn't.

Cheers,
Julien