xkeyboard-config breaks waybar

[banished-oracle]

On archlinux after updating to the most recent xkeyboard-config 2.45 version waybar crashes with the following error:

waybar --log-level trace
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] Couldn't find file "rules/evdev" in include paths
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] 1 include paths searched:
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] 	/usr/share/X11/xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] 3 include paths could not be added:
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] 	/home/user/.config/xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] 	/home/user/.xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-338] 	/etc/xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-595] Cannot load XKB rules "evdev"
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-822] Couldn't look up rules 'evdev', model 'pc105', layout 'us', variant '', options ''
segmentation fault (core dumped)  waybar --log-level trace

after rolling back to xkeyboard-config 2.44 i can again start waybar.