[Pkg-ime-devel] Re: Bug#285623: Should depend or suggest with scim-*-scoket packages for enabling full functions

Osamu Aoki osamu@debian.org
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:32:03 +0100


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:12:47PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:55:40PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> > > I noticed you made some new changes on README.Debian yesterday.  I like
> > > most of them (actually I was going to point out that scim-chinese is for
> > > PinYin input method only.  
> > 
> > Yes.  So some people may wish this package to be called scim-pinyin to
> > be neutral.  I do not care much about ownership of the word "chinese"
> > but this should be post-sarge change for sure.
> 
> I totally agree.  Just FYI:  The scim-chinese issue is a historical
> lugguage -- James had the ambition to write an intellectual IM for most
> Chinese input methods, but only finished the PinYin part, and had to
> settle for the simpler table-based engine on others.  But the name
> stays.
> 
> > As for scim-config-gconf, I thought it is a configulation module and
> > added it long time ago.  Not enough thinking behind.
> > 
> > Please make modification which makes sense to you.
> > 
> > I think explanation of what this package offer and what kinnd of
> > difference this package makes will be nice to know too.
> 
> I've removed the scim-config-gconf recommendation, and add some notes
> about the roles of scim and scim-gtk2-immodule.  I also updated the
> upstream website links.
> 
> I think the package are good to be uploaded now.  Osamu, do you have
> time to test (I've tested with pbuilder, just to make sure) and upload
> it?  Thanks.

After fixing my typo :-), I packaged this with pbuilder.
It is quite easy.  I should have used it more often.

This new SCIM works nicely.  I am uploading it now.

Osamu