[Pkg-ime-devel] Reminder: Freeze of Wheezy is approaching

Osamu Aoki osamu at debian.org
Sat Jan 28 13:20:59 UTC 2012


HI,

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:10:19PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> Dear fellow developers,
> 
> As a reminder, Wheezy is expected to be frozen in June, 2012. The
> exact deadline is still not decided.

Thanks for reminder.
 
> Now it is a good time to ping upstream, to coordinate a release that
> is to be uploaded before June for Wheezy, so we can have as many
> features/fixes as possible. It is also encouraged to fix existing bugs
> and making all kinds of packaging changes before June, so we don't
> need to bother with Release Team later.
> 
> Package scim-python needs some love because it is RC buggy. Though the
> package is not that widely used today, I still wonder if there are
> people running it and would like to have it for Wheezy.

My honest recommendation is to drop whole SCIM packages.

After spending enough time for making SCIM for squeeze while struggling
with their old autotools codes, I was going to ask removal of them.
SCIM lacks gtk3 support now and scim-bridge which was the last hope for
gtk3 and qt4 support is about to be dropped.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642371

Zombie upstream is something very difficult to work with.  They are
there but not as much help as the original authors.

...

Osamu



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