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Bug#1120735: task-chinese-t-desktop: Please migrate away from fcitx4



On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 03:20:47PM +0800, ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) wrote:
> 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.

I'm also a maintainer of chewing and ibus-chewing.
 
> * 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.

Agreed. Both ibus-chewing and fcitx5-chewing are actively maintained.
I think users will be happy with either.

> * 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.

No objection. Or just rec: ibus-table or fcitx5-table-extra, both either
suggests or recommends other table based input method packages.
 
> * I think we can also remove fonts-arphic-* from Suggestions since we
>   already have fonts-noto-cjk in Recommends.

No objection. fonts-arphic-* has it's historical importance but nowadays
fonts-noto-cjk is more common.

Kan-Ru

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