On Sunday 04 April 2010, you wrote: > Hi, > > Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com> (15/12/2009): > > […] and I don't want to modify the files under /usr -- which I must > > modify again, manually, with every upgrade. > > you probably could use dpkg-divert to have your modified file > preserved during upgrades? >
I could, but it would be fragile; it wouldn't survive the next xkb-files- rearrangement. Also, I wouldn't be receiving any updates to the base layout which I am extending in a variant (I could get around that, and the need to dpkg-divert, by simply using a private base layout; however, this would make things even more fragile, pulling any rug left from under the feet of #574590). > > I note bug #497341 and its upstream offshoot, > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20743 > > > > If I read that bug correctly, upstream's attitude towards custom > > layouts is somewhere between "no" and "it's downstream's > > business". > > I think if one is skilled enough to modify this file to support a > custom layout, one should be expected to deal with such a modified > file through usual dpkg tools. Is there another way to system-widely support a custom layout, which I missed? > I'm not sure we want or need to support > those things in a specific manner. > By "those things", do you mean my specific way of achieving custom layouts, or custom layouts in general? What I want is what we used to have -- that xkb layouts be considered as configuration, rather than data. I realize you (and upstream) are unsympathetic, but I do not understand why. Thanks, Shai. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
