V Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 09:18:56AM +1000, Peter Hutterer napsal(a):
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 10:05:32AM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > V Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 03:27:49PM +1000, Peter Hutterer napsal(a):
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > A tricky (for me) packaging question:
> > > xkeyboard-config 2.45 upstream changed the installation directory to
> > > make future multi-version installs possible. Traditionally files were
> > > installed in /usr/share/X11/xkb with an xkeyboard-config.pc pointing to
> > > those files (though that path is also frequently hardcoded).
> > > 
> > > As of 2.45 XKB files are installed in /usr/share/xkeyboard-config-2/
> > > with an xkeyboard-config-2.pc pointing to those files.
> > > 
> > > xkeyboard-config.pc is provided for backwards compatibility and
> > > /usr/share/X11/xkb symlinks to the new install location.
> > > 
> > > What I would like to do in Fedora:
> > > - new locations are packaged as xkeyboard-config and -devel
> > > - the /usr/share/X11/xkb symlink is packaged as xkeyboard-config-legacy
> > > - xkeyboard-config.pc is packaged as xkeyboard-config-legacy-devel
> > >
> > Why do you need to diverge the naming from upstream?
> > 
> > I think a name of the pkgconfig file is an identifier referred from other's
> > build script. Changing that name would break them.
> 
> It's not diverging the name other than splitting the files from a single
> upstream into two packages. upstream installs both xkeyboard-config.pc
> and xkeyboard-config-2.pc.
> 
> Long-term upstream expects the format to change but for backwards-compat
> reason we'll never be able to change the current version that's been in
> use for decades. So any current software will require
> xkeyboard-config.pc but can (at this point) be safely switched to
> xkeyboard-config-2.pc and get the same file (but in different paths).
> 
> But at some point in the future xkeyboard-config.pc (and files) will be
> decoupled properly and frozen so it's standalone while the versioned
> approaches continue at their own pace.
> 
> Anyway, that's the upstream plan, right now the TLDR is:
> xkeyboard-config upstream installs both .pc files so this is merely 
> prep work so that in 10 years time we can install
> xkeyboard-config-legacy and xkeyboard-config-5, depending on which local
> applications we have that require XKB layouts.
> 
I see. Thanks for the explanation. I misunderstood your original message.

-- Petr

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