Re: proposal to remove skim and scim-qtimm from sid

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Zhengpeng Hou wrote:

> Hi all,
> the upstream author of skim and scim-qtimm is the same one, and he hasn't
> touched this two for quite a while, from what I remember, more than 2 years.
> And the fact is the whole scim project is under non-maintained as well.
> Besides this, KDE 4 is being widely adopted nowadays, I'm not sure how many
> users will still use these two qt3/kde3 applications, just for a input method.
> Therefore, I proposal to remove these two from sid.
> Skim has some reverse depends, so I looped in corresponding maintainers.
> What do you guys think about it?

I agree and we should move quickly to ensure it is done before the lenny 
freeze.

Question: is ibus a complete replacement for scim at this stage? If so we 
may want to deprecate scim altogether.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>