Hey Iain,

I'm upstream for these 3 packages, so let me try to help here. :-)

I'm also a Fedora packager, so I do understand your concern about not
pushing something just because it's the latest, but only if it's better
for the users.

In the present case, those x.1 releases are really what should have been
the x.0 ones. You know, the bugs you find right after you finally
release something. ;-)

The full changelog for the three packages is here:
http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2014/02/New-releases-from-the-Cangjians

IMHO, ibus-cangjie 2.1 really needs to get into Ubuntu 14.04 ASAP.
Without this version, the users won't be able to change the settings for
the input method, because the settings dialog just doesn't work.

The good news is that ibus-cangjie 2.1 would work fine with libcangjie
1.0 and pycangjie 1.0, so if you prefer being conservative, then you
could update only ibus-cangjie. :-)

The changes in pycangjie are all really trivial: none of them touches
the code. There is one that I feel is important though, as it adds the
documentation to the tarball (and as such to the Ubuntu package?), which
can be useful if someone wants to build an application using the
pycangjie API. But the docs are available online anyway, so it's not
critical either way.

As for libcangjie, there could be a bit more risks, as some changes
happened to the code. However, we didn't break the API/ABI between 1.0
and 1.1, so either version would be fine for Ubuntu. We did fix a few
memory leaks though, and added the API docs to the tarball (same
omission as pycangjie), so it would still be nice to have it in 14.04.

Finally, for what it's worth, those same versions have been in Fedora
for a few months now, so they did receive some testing.

To sum it all up: these are minor releases with only few changes. I'd
prefer you upgrade everything, but if not please at least upgrade ibus-
cangjie, because version 2.0 is busted.

Thanks. :-)

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  FFe: Sync libcangjie 1.1-1 (universe), pycangjie 1.1-1 (universe) and
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