Request: xkb rules related bug reports

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Tue Apr 20 00:04:28 UTC 2004


Bugzilla is getting inundated with bug reports from people 
concerning the Xkb rules.  In particular the control-center 
applet was broken, or one of it's dependancies, and everyone and 
their brother is hitting this issue.  ;o)

First I'd like to note that the GUI tool pops up an error message 
incorrectly claiming this is an X server bug.  Now that we've got 
that out of the way that this is not an X server bug....  ;o)

I have a couple of requests I'd like to make of people testing 
Fedora Core test releases:

- Please before reporting any bug about anything in bugzilla, 
  query bugzilla *first* before filing a new bug report.  In this 
  case there are about 15-20 duplicates total I believe, all 
  filed against xorg-x11, none of which are xorg-x11 bugs.  ;o)

- Please do not file any more duplicates for this issue.  ;o)

This specific issue is fixed already I am told, but the packages
are not all available aparently, because people still reproduce
it with the latest public packages.  One reporter notes that
control-center 2.6.1 and libxklavier 1.0.2 is required to fix the
issue, however I can't find any such package name-version-release
existing inside the Red Hat buildsystem.  I believe the reporter 
made typos for the versions of both packages.

I just thought I'd make this request, so that reporters do not 
continue to waste their time by filing hundreds of duplicate 
requests for this issue, and don't waste my time having to spend 
half the day triaging all of the incoming duplicates, leaving 
less time to fix other bugs.  ;o)

The master bug duplicates of all of the xkb related issues WRT 
xkb rules file issues, are:

(control-center, xprop issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=xkbrules-xprop

(setxkbmap issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=xkbrules-setxkbmap


Please add yourself to the CC of either report if you experience
these issues, rather than reporting a new bug.  If anyone can
confirm the specific versions of said packages 'in the bugzilla
reports above' that are needed to fix the issues (as they're not
my packages), that would also be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for testing Fedora Core 2 test releases.

TTYL


P.S.  I'm not subscribed to the list, so I wont see list-replies, 
please use bugzilla to indicate any status/info for these issues.


-- 
Mike A. Harris        ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer   -   X11 Developer   -   Red Hat





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