Bug#983653: task-japanese-gnome-desktop: no Japanese input method available out of the box

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>]

Hi,

2021年2月28日(日) 13:12 YOSHINO Yoshihito <yy.y.ja.jp@gmail.com>:
>
> Package: task-japanese-gnome-desktop
> Version: 3.64
> Severity: grave
> Tags: bullseye l10n patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-japanese@lists.debian.org
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> On a fresh bullseye installation of Japanese GNOME desktop,
> its user cannot type Japanese text out of the box.
>
> A fresh buster installation of Japanese GNOME desktop
> dist-upgraded to bullseye is also affected.
>
> Note that a fresh buster installation of Japanese GNOME desktop itself
> is not affected.
>
> This is caused by the change in the gnome-shell package (Bug#815050) to add
> "Recommends: ibus", which breaks any non-ibus input method framework
> (Bug#941624),
> especially uim (mainly used by Japanese users) and fcitx (mainly used
> by Chinese users),
> while reverting the change is perhaps not feasible to western language
> users for emoji support.
>
> Adding some Japanese input method to the ibus framework should work
> around the problem
> for Japanese users. Specifically, adding Recommends: ibus-mozc (or ibus-anthy on
> architectures where mozc is not available) to this package should work
> around the problem.
> The attached patch should apply the work-around.

This patch seems to work for this issue.
I have confirmed that ibus-mozc is installed in the GNOME environment by
installing the tasksel/task-japanese-gnome-desktop packages with this patch
applied.

Holger, could you apply this patch and upload for bullseye?
Or can I upload as team upload?

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> YOSHINO Yoshihito <yy.y.ja.jp@gmail.com>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages task-japanese-gnome-desktop depends on:
> ii  tasksel  3.64
>
> Versions of packages task-japanese-gnome-desktop recommends:
> ii  thunderbird          1:78.7.1-1
> ii  thunderbird-l10n-ja  1:78.7.1-1
>
> task-japanese-gnome-desktop suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information



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