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=== Thursday 3rd September 2009 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

Today I noticed that the recently-updated `redhat-rpm-config` package contained the file `/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros.orig`,
which looked suspiciously like a patch backup file, and upon looking in CVS, that's exactly what it turned out to be.
Rather than raising a bug about it, I decided to just fix it myself, first in Rawhide including a rebuild,
and then in F-11 and F-10 (CVS only, no rebuilds as I didn't think the change warranted an update).
Whilst I was at it I fixed up a few trivial issues with the specs such as missing `%build` sections, unescaped
macros in the changelogs, and summaries ending with periods.
When I got to the F-10 version, I found that there was another patch there creating a `macros.orig` file, that
had been reported in Bugzilla and fixed in F-11 onwards ([[RedHatBugzilla:500316|Bug #500316]]).
Not only that, but the patch to include the
[[FedoraProject:PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering|automatic provides and requires filtering]]
hadn't actually been applied in the F-10 version. That one warranted a rebuild so I tagged and built it
and created a update for it.

I also got round to [[RedHatBugzilla:516114|reviewing and approving]] Ben Boeckel's `trac-accountmanager-plugin` package at last.

==== Local Packages ====

Got a response back from Greg Roelofs, de facto upstream maintainer of `xv` these days, about the
patches I sent him last month. He's busy at the moment but has queued them up to look at with a
view to including them in the next release, along with a performance patch he's been working on.
It's probably time to try merging my patches into the RPM Fusion version now.

==== XKB Error ====

Ever since updating to Fedora 11, I've been getting this error message popping up after logging into a Gnome session:
{{{
Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10601901

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
}}}

The output of those commands was as follows:
{{{
$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "gb", "", ""

$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [uk]
 options = []
 model = sp_inet
}}}

The problem turned out to be the bogus `uk` layout, which should have been `gb` - a hangover from previous releases where it hadn't been a problem.
I ran `gnome-keyboard-properties` and replaced the existing layout with the `United Kingdom` layout, which changed the `gconftool` output as follows:
{{{
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 model = sp_inet
 options = [terminate	terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp	grp:shift_caps_toggle]
 layouts = [gb]
}}}
After logging out and back in again, the problem was gone :-)
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