739814 – sys-apps/kbd-2.2.0 is incompatible to busybox's loadkmap

Bug 739814 - sys-apps/kbd-2.2.0 is incompatible to busybox's loadkmap

Summary: sys-apps/kbd-2.2.0 is incompatible to busybox's loadkmap

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2020-08-31 20:39 UTC by Th
Modified:	2022-06-03 01:29 UTC (History)
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Description Th 2020-08-31 20:39:31 UTC

kbd 2.2.0 has a known bug regarding the compatiblility to busybox's loadkmap. This bug is fixed with version 2.2.90 or 2.3.0.

I've tested version 2.2.90 and it produced a bkeymap which seems to be correct.

As currently version 2.2.0 is the latest stable version for gentoo, I would like to suggest adding version 2.2.90 or stabilizing 2.3.0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. loadkeys -b -u de-latin1 > /tmp/foo

Actual Results:  
The mapping within this file uses 4 bytes, busybox's loadkmap is not able to load it correctly. The keyboard layout will be unusable.

Expected Results:  
bkeymap should use 2 byte

Problematic commit: https://github.com/legionus/kbd/commit/a3751c107088884126a4838af32f3a5859c76b33#diff-27dc3ce3b3c4aff938a9a1c51066ab3fR75

Fix: https://github.com/legionus/kbd/commit/c994c7763b390d28ac92223eaa6176a136ad7b58