Your message dated Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:13:50 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1147324: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #708848, regarding fcitx: provide default input methods if one is not specified to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: fcitx Version: 1:4.2.7-2 Severity: normal One of the design philosophies in Debian is that packages should generally "just work" when installed. At the moment fcitx does not do this: if you install the fcitx package, no input methods are included. Hence a default installation does not work. (I mentioned this in bug #708149, but I think the question is worth raising as a separate bug. ibus has the same problem, I filed a parallel bug #708847). Of course fcitx does not know if you want Korean, Japanese or Chinese input (or which version of them). Nevertheless by pulling in no method, it appears to a dumb casual user as though fcitx is just broken. I think it would be better for casual users if some input methods (the most common input method of each language) were installed by default, unless the user specifies a specific one. It is useful to make a comparison with xserver-xorg. xserver-xorg installs all video drivers via xserver-xorg-video-all, unless a user specifies a specific one (which provides xorg-driver-video). The xserver-xorg dependency is Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video. By analogy, all that needs to be done is to add to fcitx Depends: fcitx-input-method-common | fcitx-input-method Each fcitx input method (fcitx-googlepinyin, fcitx-hangul, fcitx-anthy, etc) then Provides: fcitx-input-method. And fcitx-input-method-common is a simple dummy package that depends on selected common methods (it's a separate debate which ones should be recommended for each language!) The patch is essentially non-invasive I think. The outcome is that fcitx becomes more accessible (more useful) to casual users who are not in need of one specific input method. It's easy for me to generate a patch for you, let me know if that would be helpful. Cheers, Drew Parsons -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages fcitx depends on: pn fcitx-bin <none> pn fcitx-data <none> pn fcitx-modules <none> Versions of packages fcitx recommends: pn fcitx-config-gtk | kde-config-fcitx <none> pn fcitx-frontend-all | fcitx-frontend-fbterm <none> pn fcitx-ui-classic | fcitx-ui-light <none> ii im-config [im-switch] 0.21 Versions of packages fcitx suggests: pn fcitx-m17n <none> pn fcitx-tools <none>
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 1:4.2.9.9-2.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package fcitx has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1147324 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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