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

[Aron Xu]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 21:20, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> HI,
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:10:19PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> 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

I don't want SCIM either, since it is actually dead and ancient. But
I'm in doubt that whether there are still someone need it for some
features other IME (ibus, for example) doesn't have?

-- 
Regards,
Aron Xu