Debian Bug report logs - #490611
[g-i] shift+key not working on AZERTY keyboards

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [g-i] shift+key not working on AZERTY keyboards

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:13:45 +0100

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Package: cdebconf-gtk
Tags: upstream
Severity: normal

Step to repeat:
Set language to "French"/France, keyboard "Francais (fr-latin9)
Shift+key is not working when trying to use uppercase chars for
setting the system name after network hw has been detected.

The problem shows up _on i386_ both when using an iso image based on
gtk+directfb 2.0.9 libs [1], and based on 2.8.3 ones [2].
If  you try to switch to a text console (i.e. VT2 via ctrl-alt-f2)
the problem does _not_ show up and it's possible to type uppercase
chars [A-Z].

I tried to reproduce the problem on AMD64 [3] and it does _not_
reproduce.

Regards,
Davide

[1] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily/i386/mini.iso
[2] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_gtkdfb_2_8_3.iso
[3] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily/amd64/mini.iso

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Message #14 received at 339352@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it>

To: 339352@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Possible workaround

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:12:48 +0100

"Actually, I found a whacky way to enter shifted characters: use the
CapsLock key...."
		--- Christian Perrier

Message #19 received at 339352@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it>

To: 339352@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [g-i] shift+key not working on AZERTY keyboards

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:43:35 +0100

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Following a discussion about keyboard-related bugs on directfb-dev,
I asked some infos about this problem;

========
> > > Hi ppl,
> > > I did not follow very closely the threads about input handling bug,
> > > so
> > > excuse me if my question is OT:
> > > could #339352 be related to such problems?
> > 
> > No, you're not using the SDL input driver.
> > 
> > The shift problem only exists on AZERTY and not on
> > QWERTZ or QWERTY keyboards?
> > 
> > DirectFB fetches keyboard entries from the kernel keymap,
> > so I'm wondering why it works on the console. Maybe a
> > problem with GTK+? But then it shouldn't be bound to the
> > AZERTY layout.
> 
> My best guess is for some reason you have the wrong kernel keymap.
> 
> I was a bit stumped by this too.

============

regards,
Davide

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Message #24 received at 339352-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it>

To: 339352-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [g-i] shift+key not working on AZERTY keyboards

Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:17:27 +0200

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Version: 0.105

Just tried to reproduce the bug with a build using the new libraries and the problem
disappeared.

Regards,
Davide

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Message #29 received at 339352@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

To: control@bugs.debian.org, 339352@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Reopen and block 339352

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:03:55 +0200

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reopen 339352
block 339352 by 383220
thanks

We have worked around this issue by replacing CapsShift by Shift in the 
fr-latin9 keymap file on the fly.

Leaving the report open to await a final fix of #339352. At that time the 
workaround in rootskel-gtk (S63fr-latin9-fix) should be reverted.

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Message #44 received at 339352@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>

To: 339352@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#339352: Reopen and block 339352

Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:13:25 +0200

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clone 339352 -1
reassign -1 kbd-chooser
retitle -1 kbd-chosser: do not handle CapsShift in keymaps
severity -1 minor
block 339352 by -1
thanks

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:03:55AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> We have worked around this issue by replacing CapsShift by Shift in the 
> fr-latin9 keymap file […].

CapsShift is not currently handled in DirectFB (#383220) but is not
handled in kbd-chooser's loadkeys either… :)

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
lunar@debian.org                    : :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
                                    `. `'` 
                                      `-   

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Message #51 received at 490611-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>

To: 490611-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#490611: fixed in kbd-chooser 1.44

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:32:04 +0000

Source: kbd-chooser
Source-Version: 1.44

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kbd-chooser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

kbd-chooser_1.44.dsc
  to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_1.44.dsc
kbd-chooser_1.44.tar.gz
  to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_1.44.tar.gz
kbd-chooser_1.44_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_1.44_i386.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 490611@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> (supplier of updated kbd-chooser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:22:08 +0000
Source: kbd-chooser
Binary: kbd-chooser
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.44
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
Description: 
 kbd-chooser - Detect a keyboard and select layout (udeb)
Closes: 490610 490611
Changes: 
 kbd-chooser (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Remove incorrect space before ellipses.
   * Remove Alastair McKinstry and Matt Kraai as Uploaders with many thanks for
     their past contributions.
   * Avoid locale errors from perl from post-base-installer script.
 .
   [ Jérémy Bobbio ]
   * Fix mispositioned arguments in the PLAIN rule in loadkeys.
   * Add support for parsing "CapsShift" in keymaps.  (Closes: #490611)
   * Update symbol tables to the one found in kbd 1.14.1.
   * Merge unicode handling from kbd 1.14.1.
   * Work around DirectFB setting the keyboard mode to K_MEDIUMRAW, thus
     preventing full unicode keymaps to be installed when using the graphical
     installer.  (Closes: #490610)
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Amharic (am.po) by Tegegne Tefera
   * Arabic (ar.po) by Ossama M. Khayat
   * Belarusian (be.po) by Pavel Piatruk
   * Bulgarian (bg.po) by Damyan Ivanov
   * Esperanto (eo.po) by Serge Leblanc
   * Basque (eu.po) by Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio
   * Finnish (fi.po) by Esko Arajärvi
   * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier
   * Galician (gl.po) by Jacobo Tarrio
   * Gujarati (gu.po) by Kartik Mistry
   * Hungarian (hu.po) by SZERVÁC Attila
   * Italian (it.po) by Milo Casagrande
   * Korean (ko.po) by Changwoo Ryu
   * Malayalam (ml.po) by Praveen|പ്രവീണ്‍ A|എ
   * Marathi (mr.po) by Sampada
   * Dutch (nl.po) by Frans Pop
   * Panjabi (pa.po) by Amanpreet Singh Alam
   * Polish (pl.po) by Bartosz Fenski
   * Portuguese (pt.po) by Miguel Figueiredo
   * Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov
   * Slovak (sk.po) by Ivan Masár
   * Swedish (sv.po) by Daniel Nylander
   * Thai (th.po) by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
   * Turkish (tr.po) by Mert Dirik
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