On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 21:33:14 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > From what I know there isn't just one package maintainer (I see four > people listed in the Uploaders field) and there aren't 1000 bugs
Saying xserver-xorg-input-kbd has 1 maintainer is an overstatement, the number of people who care is probably 0. The Uploaders field doesn't really mean anything. > (actually there are 17 in this source package). > Sure. Now look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debia...@lists.debian.org and try again, with still 1 maintainer (and here again, 1 is probably more than the reality). > If the problem is to not understand the problem, then pretty please, > don't let it lie around for almost a year and never ask for having it > explained more clearly. And no, digging around for how upstream likes to > receive their bugs, in which system and where, doesn't scale when there > are people that actually know that information first hand from their > maintainer work. > > I try to explain the issue again, hopefully clearly enough: In German > keyboard layout, AltGr-q gives you an @. AltGr is the right alt key. > This works perfectly in urxvt-unicode and in gvim. It though does *not* > work in pidgin or firefox, they just receive the plain q. Those are just > two applications from either side of the problem, there are more, it's > not limited only to those but are meant as an example. > What does xev report when you press those keys? Does the problem happen in all gtk apps? Does the problem happen in non-gtk apps? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
