[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#690605: Bug#690605: Bug#690605: Bug#690605: Bug#690605: ibus-xkbc: not installed on with desktop metapackage

[Osamu Aoki]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:04:48AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> I think current IBus has new xkb integration now and ibus-xkbc is
> being deprecated, here is the related repository:
> https://github.com/fujiwarat/ibus-xkb
> 
> I'm not 100% sure whether I am correct, please point out your findings
> if you have time to do some research, thanks!

That is my understanding but that is for 1.5 series (i.e., 1.4.99...)

Wheezy is with 1.4.

So fixing data loss (serious bug) for wheezy (unstable) is good for freeze work.

But uploading to experimental may not be worth it.
 
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As I tried ibus-xkbc recently on (I'm sorry) Ubuntu 12.04 and checked
> > its upstream repo in https://github.com/sun-im/ibus-xkbc
> >
> > It seems like ibus-xkbc is not in good state, there is no commits for
> > about 2 years and it may not work well with newer systems, say Wheezy.
> >
> > For example, its setup script explicitly call python2.6, but newer
> > system would have Python 2.7.
> > https://github.com/sun-im/ibus-xkbc/blob/master/setup/ibus-setup-xkbc.in#L25
> >
> > There are no bugs reported for the issue yet.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Aron Xu