Treatment of keysyms out of sync with dev files

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

This may be a serious problem for some users. Please see the associated Debian bug for details. Hopefully, this can find its way into hardy-updates. From #ubuntu-bugs:

<RAOF> But now I'm not actually sure what 246850 is about - the upstream bug is only about finnish.
<sn9> yes, because that's where the debian bug originator found the bug
<RAOF> But what _is_ the bug?
<RAOF> A sub-bug is that some compose sequences don't work with the finnish layout.
<RAOF> What is the rest?
<RAOF> And why isn't it documented in Launchpad :)
<sn9> the bug is that updates to libx11's treatment of keysyms are out of sync with updates to the dev files
<RAOF> Right. So, that should be the title of the bug.
<sn9> it was an upstream screwup that was quickly corrected, but not before debian packaged it. debian soon fixed it, but it got into hardy
<RAOF> I'm not arguing that it's not a bug. I'm suggesting ways that you can change your existing bug to make it more useful. And hence, more likely to be dealt with.
<RAOF> This sort of information should be in the launchpad bug.
<RAOF> The person who assesses it's SRU-
<sn9> i could attach a transcript of what was just said
<RAOF> That would be fine.

The practical upshot of this is that some compose sequences are broken in Hardy's Finnish layout, and apparently fixing bug 246834 will expose some more broken compose sequences in the new mac keymap.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Fixed in Intrepid, keeping open for hardy.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".