Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.4+2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xkbcomp
Tags: upstream

I defined a partial symbols file to override an alphanumeric key and
verified that it works if I place it into
/usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/madduck and amended the xkb_symbols setting
of the xkb_keymap like this:

  xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)+madduck(basic)"   };

This is the file's contents:

  partial alphanumeric_keys
  xkb_symbols "basic" {
          key <AE03> {
                  symbols[Group1] = [     3,      sterling        ]
          };
  };

After installing it with xkbcomp, Shift-3 produces a £. \o/

Now I would like to steer clear of writing to /usr and thus created
~/.xkb/symbols and placed the file therein. Unfortunately, xkbcomp
does not seem to care:

  lapse:~|master|% xkbcomp -I~/.xkb ~/.xkb/map :0
  Error:            Can't find file "madduck" for symbols include
                    Exiting
                    Abandoning symbols file "(null)"
  Error:            success in unknown
                    Couldn't write keyboard description to :0

But:

  lapse:~|master|% ls -l .xkb/symbols/madduck
  -rw------- 1 madduck madduck 105 2009-04-17 16:07 .xkb/symbols/madduck

-I~/.xkb/symbols does not work either.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages x11-xkb-utils depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.3.3-2  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  libc6                         2.9-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.0-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                       2:1.0.5-2  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxkbfile1                   1:1.0.5-1  X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  x11-common                    1:7.4+1    X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

x11-xkb-utils recommends no packages.

x11-xkb-utils suggests no packages.

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