Package: console-setup
Version: 1.29
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
While upgrading from console-data's keymaps to console-setup, my caps
lock became a shift lock, and the caps lock led doesn't work any more.
This is due to these few lines:
# A hack to work around a bug in the kernel/loadkeys
if (! $acm) {
$xkbsym_table{'Caps_Lock'} = 'Shift_Lock';
$xkbsym_table{'ISO_Lock'} = 'Shift_Lock';
}
which happen to be always executed as my system is UTF-8, just like all
future installed Debian systems. Why is this hack needed? We should
rather fix the bug where it belongs instead of introducing others on all
future installed systems... :)
If the reason has been lost in history (the code dates back from at
least 2005) then we should probably apply the patch to fix the common
case, and let the real bug reappear and get fixed the proper way.
Samuel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.26-2.1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii xkb-data 1.5-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii kbd 1.14.1-4 Linux console font and keytable ut
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: France
console-setup/modelcode:
console-setup/fontsize: 8
console-setup/layoutcode: fr
debian-installer/console-setup/title:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic
languages
console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: VGA
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 8
* console-setup/compose: Right Logo key
console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin
* console-setup/layout: France
console-setup/variantcode:
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
console-setup/fontsize-fb: 8
--
Samuel
Be warned that typing \fBkillall \fIname\fP may not have the desired
effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
(From the killall manual page)
Index: Keyboard/ckbcomp
===================================================================
--- Keyboard/ckbcomp (révision 57453)
+++ Keyboard/ckbcomp (copie de travail)
@@ -2549,12 +2549,6 @@
close ACM;
}
-# A hack to work around a bug in the kernel/loadkeys
-if (! $acm) {
- $xkbsym_table{'Caps_Lock'} = 'Shift_Lock';
- $xkbsym_table{'ISO_Lock'} = 'Shift_Lock';
-}
-
########### PARSING ###############################################
# Report a syntax error in $filename. $_[0] should describe what was
