On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 11:37:22AM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> The migration from fcitx 4.x to fcitx 5.x should be straightforward. The previous concerns raised
> in [3] should have been fully addressed. On the other hand, migrating to ibus for all Tranditional
> Chinese desktop environments is also viable.
>
> Please consider reviewing the current available Input Method frameworks in Debian and
> make the switch at your convenience, but the decision should be made no later than the Debian Forky freeze
> (~Dec 2026). Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
disclosure:
I am one of the upstream maintainers of chewing, ibus-chewing, and
package maintainer of fonts-noto-cjk.
* For task-chinese-t-desktop, I think both ibus, or fcitx5 are good for
me. Since I use ibus-chewing, I do prefer to use ibus-chewing as
default.
* I don't think we need so many input methods in task-chinese-t-desktop.
User normally uses only one input method for Chinese. I think we shall
keep only chewing here, and let user decides what they want to install
by themselves.
* I think we can also remove fonts-arphic-* from Suggestions since we
already have fonts-noto-cjk in Recommends.
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