Bug#681466: tasksel: update input method support and Chinese tasks
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Aron Xu (aron@debian.org):
>> Package: src:tasksel
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I've prepared a patch for improving the input method support status in
>> Wheezy, together with some updates to Chinese tasks.
>
> I committed most of these changes except the ones that move packages
> to Suggests. Agreeing with Joey, there is no point in having packages
> in Suggests in tasks as they would not be installed by default.. So
> these have been left in Recommends.
>
Thanks! Then I'd like to remove those packages from Recommends,
because they were regarded to be not suitable for default but useful
for some users as of my creating the patch.
> Apart from that, thanks a lot for your very careful and detailed
> work.
>
> I'm a bit puzzled about some Indic languages using input methods (such
> as Telugu or Malayalam) and others not (Hindi, Marathi, etc.)...but I
> guess this belongs to users of these laguages to tell us what should
> be done.
>
I'm not very sure why those tasks don't have default input method in
task, but it could be a choice of those users. We may need to ask the
users if we want to know the exact situation.
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Regards,
Aron Xu
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