[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#721734: Bug#721734: ibus-googlepinyin: Abondened upstream

[Aron Xu]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: ibus-googlepinyin
> Version: 0.1.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> As upstream state in:
>    https://code.google.com/p/libgooglepinyin/
>
> This is "prove concept project" and asking:
>
> | If you are interested in full featured pinyin input method, please try
> | libpinyin or sunpinyin, they are both supported by fcitx and ibus. They
> | use more advanced algorithm (2-gram vs this project's unigram) and
> | support more feature, like Shuangpin, Zhuyin, Fuzzy Pinyin and so on.
> | Thank you.
>
> This is a good candidate for removal.
>
> If you think I am wrong, please speak up.
>

I think this is wrong, and I believe there is still some users using
it without problem. If we are going to remove anything abandoned
upstream then we have lots of packages to be removed...



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Regards,
Aron Xu