Package: im-switch Version: 1.20 Severity: normal (I am CCing all maintainers which make some dependency to the im-switch packages.)
TODO: Agree and document post wheezy situation for im-switch, so people on wheezy will not be surprised when upgrading to wheezy+1. PROPOSAL: In README.Debian, state * im-switch is deprecated and * recommend people to move to im-config. FACTS: * im-switch and im-config provide equivalent services. * im-config is simple and works better. Move to im-config after wheezy+1 should be the next step (This is merely my opinion) * im-switch is complicated and its configuration mechanism is hard to understand and maintain. (I have been making efforts for both.) * im-switch suffers few technical issues - multi-arch (Ubuntu patch proposed) - handling of GTK2/GTK3 mixed system - these can not be solved by im-switch only due to complicated hook script structure. * im-config 0.5 solves all these issues. (Minor glitches, I am willing to fix) * 2 overlapping Debian releases are enough for transition. * Unknown: Impact to Ubuntu which seems to depend on im-switch (If anyone is interested on this, please tell us. I am ignorant on this) * fcitx, libuim-data, scim, scim-pinyin Packages with Recommends: im-config | im-switch Safe for im-switch removal and no impact with default installation (scim-pinyin does not need to do this since scim pulls this in. But no bad effect.) * gcin Packages with Recommends: im-switch | im-config Safe for im-switch removal and little impact with default installation * gtk-im-libthai, gtk3-im-libthai Packages with Recommends: im-switch Possible to do im-switch removal No support by im-config at this moment (Need to discuss) * imhangul-common, kinput2-common Packages with Depends: im-switch I should file wish list bug for Recommends: im-config | im-switch I should also offer support to imhangul-common. That is TODO on me with help by imhangul-common folks. kinput2-common seems to be a dead weight package now. (Debian has no gargage collection mehanism of unused and unmaintained packages except for FTBFS. They can become security risk, though.) Since this affects many packages, I would like to discuss in public here and make appropriate preparation in wheezy by documenting next step. If you are CCed and have objection to remove this after wheezy+1, please make your objection clear and present your alternative plan. Thanks for your cooperation. Regards, Osamu PS: I did not CC task-chinese-s/t-desktop since it is owned by Debian Install System Team <debian-b...@lists.debian.org>. But they recommend fcitx and im-switch. Removing im-switch still pull in im-config via fcitx. Osamu -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org