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Re: Dropping ibus-pinyin (or salvaging libpyzy)?



On 2020-04-29 05:51, Boyuan Yang wrote:
TL;DR: Let's drop package ibus-pinyin from Debian since it implicitly
(build- )depends on the unmaintained python2. If we want to save it,
considerable amount of work need to be done.

FWIW I want to mention that porting ibus-pinyin itself to py3 isn't very hard. I did that last year as an experiment:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/ibus-pinyin/+packages

But the main obstacle seems to be libpyzy, which I have never looked at.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj


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