On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Martin Pieuchot <mpieuc...@nolizard.org> wrote:
> On 01/10/13(Tue) 12:03, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2013/10/01 12:20, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
>> >
>> > Here's an old mail...
>> >
>> > Tristan Le Guern <aversi...@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> >
>> > Hi Tristan,
>> >
>> > > This is an updated version of my previous submission of xbk-qwerty-fr.
>> > > The keymap file is now installed under
>> > > "/usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us_qwerty-fr" and then @sample'd to
>> > > "/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us_qwerty-fr".
>> > >
>> > > Ok?
>> >
>> > Hmm, almost. I wouldn't use ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PKGNAME}, but
>> > ${PREFIX}/share/doc/xkb-qwerty-fr/ in do-install. This way the path
>> > doesn't change with updates, and the make update-plist won't try to use
>> > ${FULLPKGNAME} (which is wrong). But I can fix this before importing.
>> >
>> > I'd like to hear at least another porter about the /usr/X11R6 handling.
>> > Does @sample make sense? That's the only way we found for setxkbmap to
>> > work.
>>
>> I'm not totally keen on a port installing files into /usr/X11R6, does
>> a symlink work? If so, we could ask people to add that themselves (a quick
>> 1-line MESSAGE would probably be enough for this).
It seems that a symlink work, yes.
> IMHO the best solution would be to make it part of xkb, this way it
> will be directly available in xenocara.
>
> Did you or the original author tried to submit it upstream? I guess it
> should go in xkeyboard-config.
The web archive of the upstream mailing list seems to be down
(http://listserv.bat.ru/xkb/List.html) so I asked the author about it.
I don't really know upstream, but xkb is a MIT licensed project, while
xkb-qwerty-fr is GPLv2. It will not be a problem?
--
Tristan Le Guern
Epitech 2013
