SRU: xorg.conf.d/90-zap.conf destroys xorg keyboard settings

Another way to define a keyboard combination to terminate the X server, that doesn't destroy users' XKBOptions, is to define this in the livecd ubuntu-mate seeds:
keyboard-configuration keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp boolean true

Although I don't think that this should be flavor specific, I vote that 90-zap.conf be completely dropped.

90-zap.conf is a hangover from when I was adding the inital Compiz support to Ubuntu MATE over a year ago. It is no longer required, this functionality doesn't exist in other Ubuntu flavours and (as you describe) breaks functionality for some locales.

I'll file an SRU to drop 90-zap.conf from ubuntu-mate.settings.

Hello Alkis, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-mate-settings into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mate-settings/16.04.5.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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I think that the committed fix has a bad side-effect:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/257669273/ubuntu-mate-settings_16.04.5_16.04.5.1.diff.gz

Note the line that reads:
+rm_conffile /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-zap.conf 16.04.5

This file is not a conffile and shouldn't be handled as a conffile.

Now, when upgrading to the proposed package, I got this warning:
> Obsolete conffile /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-zap.conf has been modified by you.
> Saving as /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-zap.conf.dpkg-bak ...

I never modified that file though, so a .dpkg-bak file shouldn't be left on my disk.

@flexiondotorg, could you please reupload without that rm_conffile line?

The 90-zap.conf file will properly get deleted by dpkg on upgrade since it's not a conffile, so there's no need to handle it specially...

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-mate-settings - 16.10.0

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ubuntu-mate-settings (16.10.0) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Do not automatically start Tilda.
  * Migrate to LibreOffice Tango icons.
  * Hide Compton desktop icon when running MATE.

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Tue, 17 May 2016 22:57:48 +0100

> +rm_conffile /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-zap.conf 16.04.5

Indeed, this is wrong and should be dropped. Marking as v-failed, please reupload without this.

As discussed in LP: #1577706 this SRU is now being tracked in this bug only. ubuntu-mate-settings 16.04.5.3 has just been uploaded to address the issue reported.

The xenial update was not verified in three months, this still has not been fixed in yakkety. I'll remove this SRU next week if there isn't any progress here as this seem stuck.

Hello Alkis, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-mate-settings into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mate-settings/16.04.5.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

This was fixed in ubuntu-mate-settings 16.10.1 for Yakkety.

I too confirm that ubuntu-mate-default-settings 16.04.5.3 indeed solves the reported issues in Ubuntu 16.04.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-mate-settings - 16.04.5.3

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ubuntu-mate-settings (16.04.5.3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Re-upload. Closes (LP: #1574789)

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:31:54 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-mate-settings has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.