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Bug#983704: Switch to fcitx5 for Simplified and Traditional Chinese desktop

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Shengjing Zhu

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Feb 28, 2021, 12:30:04 PM2/28/21
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Package: tasksel
Version: 3.64
Severity: important
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Please replace fcitx with fcitx5 in Bullseye for Chinese desktops.

fcitx doesn't work for Wayland users. And the upstream develop of fcitx
is in maintenance mode.

fcitx5 is developed by same upstream, and works for Wayland.

Fcitx5 reaches its stable version in 2020-11. I and other DDs have used it
for months. And it works well.

So I think it's better to replace fcitx with fcitx5 for Bullseye, instead of
documenting in release notes that tells users to switch to Xorg.
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Holger Wansing

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Mar 19, 2021, 4:50:03 PM3/19/21
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Hi,

Shengjing Zhu <zh...@debian.org> wrote (Mon, 1 Mar 2021 01:22:18 +0800):
> So I think it's better to replace fcitx with fcitx5 for Bullseye, instead of
> documenting in release notes that tells users to switch to Xorg.

Currently we have for Chinese:

Package: task-chinese-s-desktop
fcitx,
fcitx-sunpinyin,
fcitx-googlepinyin,
fcitx-table-wubi,
fcitx-frontend-qt5,
kde-config-fcitx
im-config,


Package: task-chinese-t-desktop
fcitx,
fcitx-chewing,
fcitx-table,
im-config,


Simply replacing fcitx with fcitx5 in tasksel for Chinese apparently does not
work, because there is - for example - no package "fcitx5-sunpinyin" in Bullseye,
while "fcitx5-chewing" is indeed existing in Bullseye.

So, there is more input needed, which package replaces which, and dealing with
dependencies, and so on.

Maybe, you could provide a patch for tasksel to deal with this issue?

Holger



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Shengjing Zhu

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Mar 20, 2021, 4:30:03 AM3/20/21
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Hi,
I forget to mention the MR is at
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/merge_requests/16

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Holger Wansing

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Mar 21, 2021, 1:10:05 PM3/21/21
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Hi,

Shengjing Zhu <zh...@debian.org> wrote (Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:17:32 +0800):
> I forget to mention the MR is at
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/merge_requests/16

Merged into master.
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