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#1 2009-02-19 13:39:14

andre.ramaciotti
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From: Brazil
Registered: 2007-04-06
Posts: 649

Guidance for reporting bug upstream [kbd]

You can skip the background if you wish.

Background: We, Brazilians, use a different keyboard from the us one. It's basically a qwerty with some ponctuation keys in other places and some keys more. Things have worked fine until a black day, when some notebook manufacturers decided that have a key with / ? and ° was a waste of space and these characters should be placed at alt gr + { q, w, e} (some others use alt gr + e with the euro symbol and place ° somewhere else).

At graphical environments it's not a big hassle, these keys work as they should after the keyboard layout is set, the problem is at the console, where they won't work by default. There are workarounds (cd .. down to / and use tab-completion) but they're ugly. The solution is simple, just add some lines to a text file, but there's the...

Problem: The file that needs to be updated is owned by kbd:

pacman -Qo /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-abnt2.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-abnt2.map.gz is owned by kbd 1.14.1.20080309-2

but the url in the kbd package description is a ftp:

pacman -Qi kbd | grep '^URL'
URL            : ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/legion/kbd/

so I don't have the slightest of how report the bug upstream and send a patch.

Any thoughts?

TIA


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