Source: fcitx Severity: important Tags: upstream wontfix Forwarded: https://lists.debian.org/debian-input-method/2024/10/msg00042.html X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
On 12 Oct 2024, Boyuan Yang wrote: >According to https://github.com/fcitx/ , it is obvious that the fcitx upstream >has archived all fcitx 4.x-related development repositories since 2024-05. >We can now assume that the upstream support for fcitx-* packages is no longer >available. > >With the shift of upstream development and fcitx 4.x being unable to support >Wayland environment from the very beginning, I believe the support for fcitx4 >input method framework in Debian should be deprecated. Now it should be the >time to review all the reverse dependencies to fcitx4 and consider migrating >out of it. > >Since we are late in the Debian 13 ("Trixie") development cycle, the package >deprecation or removal will not happen before Debian 13 release. I believe >that package removal will not happen earlier than Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release so >that users and developers will have enough time to make the migration. > >A major source of fcitx4 package dependency is the tasksel metapackages. >Replacing occurrences of fcitx4 in tasksel with fcitx5 should be the first >thing to do next, and of course, with enough testing from users of different >locales. Opening a bug to represent that "dead upstream" status. We're more than halfway through the Debian 14 cycle. Is it time to revisit this, and perhaps look more closely at whether fcitx 4.x can/should be removed before forky? Dependencies that would be broken by this are: - libsdl2, libsdl3: the Build-Depends on fcitx-libs-dev is not actually necessary (SDL only uses fcitx via a D-Bus API), I'm going to remove it in the next upload - mozc: builds a fcitx-mozc package, could presumably stop building that (but continue to build fcitx5-mozc) - fcitx-autoeng-ng, fcitx-chewing, fcitx-configtool, fcitx-dbus-status, fcitx-fullwidthchar-enhance, fcitx-m17n, fcitx-punc-ng, fcitx-qimpanel, fcitx-ui-light: all seem to be specific to fcitx 4.x, do they have fcitx5-based replacements? (This was prompted by me trying to remove the deprecated libgirepository1.0-dev, which is still needed by fcitx 4.x, <https://bugs.debian.org/1118813>.) Thanks, smcv
