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xkb-data upgrade

Asked by kixidevel

How many times updates xkb-data in ubuntu lts versions?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If I look at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config I do not see any update for xkb-data in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 since their publication.

Is there something wrong with the package, that you think it should be updated?

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kixidevel (kixidevel) said : 		#2

I tought, if an newer layout defined in xkeyboard-config, adopt it? How long time need to wait to enjoy it? I asked it because there are an extra layout, from which need to create an another for easier using. I added the first one, too.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Ok, this deserves a longer answer.

The majority of the software packages in Ubuntu are not invented by Ubuntu, but taken from somewhere else and just put into a package for easy installation with the Ubuntu tools.

If you have a suggested modification for xkeyboard-config you better inform the original source of that software. If the modification is accepted there, Ubuntu will inherit the modification when they package that software the next time.

Additionally Ubuntu is no rolling release. This means that a package in a Ubuntu release usually stays at the same version which was the current one when the Ubuntu release was published. (E.g. xkb-data on Ubuntu 16.04 is still at version 2.16 which was standard when Ubuntu 16.04 was prepared. Ubuntu 18.04 has version 2.23 which was the latest one when Ubuntu 18.04 was published.)

If you have new keyboard layouts that would be interesting for all users of xkeyboard-config, then you should not add it just to the Ubuntu version, but to the global software.

I suggest that you check https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/ and the linke below the heading "Development" on that page.

If the change that you want to suggest is already available in a version of xkb-data which is higher than the one provided in an Ubuntu release, then you can request that the package in the Ubuntu release be upgraded - either via the SRU process, or via a backport.

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kixidevel (kixidevel) said : 		#4

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.