There's another solution available, with a less drastic fix:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=309424
In short, this distilled down to removing the existing
/usr/share/X11/xkb (e.g. renaming it to .xkb-broken or something) and
linking /usr/share/X11/xkb to /etc/X11/xkb:
cd /usr/share/X11
sudo mv xkb .xkb-broken
sudo ln -s ../../../etc/X11/xkb/
Further investigation seems to indicate that the xkb-data-legacy package
will provide everything we need, but that package has dependencies that
will regress your system badly.
But I see the fact that we can't fix it in the distro proper as a major
setback. Is it considered low risk enough to include something like
this symlink in the xkb-data package, and thus fix it within the distro?
That sounds better to me than Seb having to track these packages, and
users having to manually install them for the life of Edgy.
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