Hi, Sorry for my late reply...
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Aron Xu (happyaron...@gmail.com): >> Package: task-kannada-desktop >> Severity: important >> >> Please remove scim-tables from Depends as we are trying to get rid the >> package from Debian. scim-tables has a dead upstream for years, not >> maintained in Debian and very buggy now. Please advise relevant users >> to use ibus-table instead. > > This task and task-malayalam-desktop were the only one to *Depend* on > scim-<something>. Indeed, both were depending on > scim-tables-additionnal. > > On the other hand, several other language tasks do Recommend some > scim-<something> package. Most often, obviously for complex (to input) > languages. > > So, as a safe change, I did not drop the dependency but turned it into > a Recommends. > Thanks, we are still preparing an upload for finally providing all those scim-table-<whatever>, even though only rarely used ones are missing (and they are already supported by libm17n, btw). Replacing existing ones with ibus-m17n or fcitx-m17n should be safe. > I however wonder what alternative should be offerred for language tasks > that were using SCIM. I guess there is a preferred input method for > them? > Currently the 1st recommended is IBus, and 2nd is Fcitx. > Would you indeed mind looking at the entire debian/control file for > tasksel and make recommendations for input methods depending on > languages. I bet you're a much better specialist than me or other > tasksel maintainers...:-) > > Sure, but I can only look at them after June 12th, which is a bit late for freeze, but I think it shouldn't be a problem? -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMr=8w7qewpbpujc1ss9odvburv6udvg2ts2uy3o+hih8ua...@mail.gmail.com
