[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#864913: ibus: New upstream release (1.5.16)

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> You mean these are different?  Which one?  I am a bit confused.

Yes, they are different. The ibus-1.15.14 tarball has ./autogen.sh run
for you. The other one is automatically generated by GitHub and only
includes the files that were checked in to git.

I suppose it's fine to use the tarball you are using. If upstream
would switch to a build system like meson, they wouldn't need to worry
about ./autogen.sh or ./configure and the tarball should be equal to
what's in git.

> Unless those are bad, I thought having old tars are OK.

pristine-tar is good. I can build your 1.15.17-1 release fine (I had
problems with your git repo earlier) so you can ignore my suggested
history rewrite.

> But let me sleep now.  I think I need to cut down on packaging.  Are you
> willing to take over this package?  I am completely behind these days.

I don't use any input methods or ibus. My next input method related
task is to try to get that gtk2 thing we did applied to the other gtk2
input method modules.

I could maybe join pkg-ime but I don't really intend to take over
maintenance for any of these packages.

By the way, could you remove the extra debian/patches/ that don't
apply any more to keep things from being cluttered?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha