[heads-up] kbd using converted xkb layouts landing in Rawhide

[Vitezslav Crhonek]

Hello,

I have built kbd-1.15.5-6.fc20 recently. It uses converted xkb layouts
instead of original console keymaps by default.

Basic info:

- the list of xkb layouts and variants is taken from
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml
(processed by slightly modified perl script taken from
xkeyboard-config package sources)

- xkb keymaps are converted during build of the kbd package
using "ckbcomp" from console-setup package

- there are symlinks from the old keymap names to the matching entries
of the X11 keymaps (pairs taken from 'kbd-model-map' file in localed
sources)

- original keymaps are available in kbd-legacy subpackage and
/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy directory (so you can still loadkey
your favorite keymap shipped by kbd upstream if you want or in case
of need), kbd-legacy is (temporarily?) required by main kbd package

The change is discussed in [1], check it for more information.

Please let me know if it breaks something or if you think that the
symlink from old keymap should point to different xkb layout.

Best regards,
Vitezslav Crhonek

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837292