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@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard utilities.</para>
+ <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files, console fonts, and keyboard
+ utilities.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -40,6 +41,11 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Kbd</title>
+ <para>The behaviour of <command>loadkeys</command> when run without a
+ filename was broken in this release. The following patch fixes this:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The behaviour of the Backspace and Delete keys is not consistent
across the keymaps in the Kbd package. The following patch fixes this
issue for i386 keymaps:</para>
@@ -49,6 +55,11 @@
<para>After patching, the Backspace key generates the character with code 127,
and the Delete key generates a well-known escape sequence.</para>
+ <para>Fix a bug in the Spanish message translations which prevents kbd from
+ building with gettext-&gettext-version;:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/guardado\ el/s/\(^.*en\ %\)\(.*\)/\14\$\2/' po/es.po</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/lib/kbd</userinput></screen>