[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#591459: Bug#591459: Could not activate Ibus and Mozc from experimental.

[Ma Xiaojun]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> Anyway, GNOME 3.6 is not stable enough platform yet.  It needs to
> stabilize itself before we package for Debian unstable (at least around
> IME related things.)  We are shipping GNOME 3.4 so ibus 1.4.? is good
> choice.

I'm not aware of any concrete stability issue.
However, some methods they are currently using are really problematic.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688914
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688916
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00091.html
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00123.html

> I did not initiate this experimental upload (Asias He and Aron Xu did).
> I think we should keep us out of these new GNOME for unstable.  Once we
> see the next RHEL release with newer GNOME 3.8, we will be OK.
> Otherwise, GNOME development releases are really alpha stage quality as
> a whole distribution.
Rumors said RHEL7 is based Fedora 18 and it is clear that Fedora will
use GNOME 3.6.
But GNOME 3.6 integration is very problematic as I mentioned above.
I guess we better correct what GNOME is doing wrong whether than
hopelessly waiting.