[Pkg-ime-devel] ibus-setup is not saving the changes

[kamathvasudev@gmail.com (Vasudev Kamath)]

Hi Osamu,

Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> writes:

> HI,
>
<snip>
>> [1] https://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=645
>
> I see.  Current ibus package is tracking basically FEDORA package
> patches but I decided to ship ibus-setup for other desktop.  
> (There may be some patch around to address this issue.)

I see, may be ibus is hardly bound to Gnome may be why this issue is
occuring? I'm not sure I'm just doing guessing job.

>
>> I'm using slim desktop manager with dwm window manager, I also tried
>> this with kdm but same problem. 
>
> I see.
>
>> I thought I should discuss this before filing a bug, if any one have any
>> suggestion to fix this issue I'm all ears :-D
>
> I think ibus-setup needs love to get its source updated with newer
> GNOME3 situation.  See bugs: 726453 and 729472 on ibus-setup which I
> retitled to make it easy to identify.

I've not checked yet let me have a look at this package.

>
> I think someone needs to maintain this part of ibus.  Patches to
> upstream seems to be the way to go.
>
> If you Co-maintain ibus with us, applying Debian patches is a short term
> solution.

Just wondering if ibus-setup is part of ibus source package. I'll be
happy to co-maintain it. But what do you mean by Debian patches? (I
checked patches and it looks like its taken from Fedora, which is
justified by your above statement package being taken from Fedora)

>
> I think we also need to check what other distribution is doing.  Ubuntu,
> , FEDORA, SUSE, Gentoo.
>
>  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus
>  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/ibus
>   or http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/suse/src/ibus-1.5.4-5.1.src.rpm
>  http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176516
>  https://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-i18n/ibus
>
> See https://wiki.debian.org/Repackage_srcrpm for easy way to inspect the rpm
> source.
>
> FYI: you now have alioth write access.

Thank you.

Cheers,
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