Followup-For: Bug #926018 Package: release.debian.org Dear Release Team,
This bug is critical to Japanese desktop users, otherwise it is hard to type Japanese text on the desktop after it is dist-upgraded from Stretch. With uim installation in current testing version (1:1.8.8-3) upgraded from Stretch version (1:1.8.6+gh20161003.0.d63dadd-2) every user needs to do the following cumbersome procedure in order to type any Japanese text: 1) Open the application you want to type text into. 2) Click the leftmost button on the uim-toolbar. A LONG LONG menu listing all the installed IMs are appeared. Notice that `m17n-unicode' is selected, which is not a Japanese input method (IM). 3) Scroll down the list to reach its bottom. 4) Click your favorite Japanese IM listed at the bottom, like `Mozc' or `Anthy (UTF-8)'. Note this setting (an IM selection) is temporary, so do this each time after login. Or 1) Click the rightmost button `Preference' on the uim-toolbar. 2) Click `Edit...' in the `Enabled input methods'. 3) Select all the IMs excluding the one you want to use (e.g. a Japanese IM `Mozc' or `Anthy (UTF-8)') in the `Enabled' box. 4) Move the selected IMs to the `Disabled' box. 5) Click `Close'. 6) Click `OK'. Then this setting (an IM selection order) is permanent to the user. This is far from a working Japanese desktop out-of-the-box. The maintainers and I consider this problem must be fixed for Buster. This is caused by the merge of some binary packages in 1:1.8.6+gh20161003.0.d63dadd-5~exp1. We did not notice the bad behavior because this does not happen in some situation, like a fresh installation. The version in sid (1:1.8.8-4) reverts the merge and fixes the problem. Please consider unblocking uim. Thanks in advance, -- YOSHINO Yoshihito <yy.y.ja...@gmail.com>