Bug#983704: Switch to fcitx5 for Simplified and Traditional Chinese desktop

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 4:41 AM Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote (Mon, 1 Mar 2021 01:22:18 +0800):
> > So I think it's better to replace fcitx with fcitx5 for Bullseye, instead of
> > documenting in release notes that tells users to switch to Xorg.
>
> Currently we have for Chinese:
>
> Package: task-chinese-s-desktop
>         fcitx,
>         fcitx-sunpinyin,
>         fcitx-googlepinyin,
>         fcitx-table-wubi,
>         fcitx-frontend-qt5,
>         kde-config-fcitx
>         im-config,
>
>
> Package: task-chinese-t-desktop
>         fcitx,
>         fcitx-chewing,
>         fcitx-table,
>         im-config,
>
>
> Simply replacing fcitx with fcitx5 in tasksel for Chinese apparently does not
> work, because there is - for example - no package "fcitx5-sunpinyin" in Bullseye,
> while "fcitx5-chewing" is indeed existing in Bullseye.
>
> So, there is more input needed, which package replaces which, and dealing with
> dependencies, and so on.
>
> Maybe, you could provide a patch for tasksel to deal with this issue?
>

I forget to mention the MR is at
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/merge_requests/16

-- 
Shengjing Zhu