[Pkg-ime-devel] ibus-setup is not saving the changes

Vasudev Kamath kamathvasudev at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 14:36:33 UTC 2013


Hi Osamu,

Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:51:39AM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Osamu,
>> 
>> Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > HI,
>> >
>> <snip>
>> >> [1] https://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=645
>> >
>> > I see.  Current ibus package is tracking basically FEDORA package
>> > patches but I decided to ship ibus-setup for other desktop.  
>> > (There may be some patch around to address this issue.)
>> 
>> I see, may be ibus is hardly bound to Gnome may be why this issue is
>> occuring? I'm not sure I'm just doing guessing job.
>> 
>> >
>> >> I'm using slim desktop manager with dwm window manager, I also tried
>> >> this with kdm but same problem. 
>> >
>> > I see.
>> >
>> >> I thought I should discuss this before filing a bug, if any one have any
>> >> suggestion to fix this issue I'm all ears :-D
>> >
>> > I think ibus-setup needs love to get its source updated with newer
>> > GNOME3 situation.  See bugs: 726453 and 729472 on ibus-setup which I
>> > retitled to make it easy to identify.
>>
>> I've not checked yet let me have a look at this package.
>
> I see upstream fixed one of the bug after reviewing and correcting my
> proposed fix.
>
>> > I think someone needs to maintain this part of ibus.  Patches to
>> > upstream seems to be the way to go.
>> >
>> > If you Co-maintain ibus with us, applying Debian patches is a short term
>> > solution.
>> 
>> Just wondering if ibus-setup is part of ibus source package. 
>
> It is part of ibus package.
>
>> I'll be
>> happy to co-maintain it. But what do you mean by Debian patches? (I
>> checked patches and it looks like its taken from Fedora, which is
>> justified by your above statement package being taken from Fedora)
>
> I mean to create our own patches as debian patches.  Since ibus upstream
> is friendly, sending such a proposed patch to the upstream get
> integrated to upstream vcs if it is good fix.  Once we see that patch in
> git, we can make debian revision release before the whole new upstream
> tar ball with patch files in debian/patches directory.

Ah I see, okay I'm  not sure how much I will be able to do but I will
definitely give it a try.

>
>> > I think we also need to check what other distribution is doing.  Ubuntu,
>> > , FEDORA, SUSE, Gentoo.
>> >
>> >  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus
>> >  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/ibus
>> >   or http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/suse/src/ibus-1.5.4-5.1.src.rpm
>> >  http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176516
>> >  https://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-i18n/ibus
>> >
>> > See https://wiki.debian.org/Repackage_srcrpm for easy way to inspect the rpm
>> > source.
>
> Updated this with pointer to;
>   http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/distro-patches

Noted thanks.

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