Re: Pending autoremoval of gcin (Was: QT6 Compatibility for Trixie release)
control: severity -1 important
On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:46:15 +0200 textshell@uchuujin.de wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:31:23 +0100 =?utf-8?b?QW5kcmV3IExlZSAo5p2O5YGl56eLKQ==?= <ajqlee@debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: gcin
> > Followup-For: Bug #1096098
> >
> > control: severity -1 serious
> >
> > Dear maintainer of gcin,
> >
> > I'm raising the severity of this ticket. We are currently in the first
> > stage of the freeze for trixie, and this input method doesn't works
> > in desktop environments like KDE/LXQt and also other apps that uses QT6.
> >
> > As a regular user. I'm unable to use this input method in any QT6
> > apps/environment. As an expert user I can switch to other input method,
> > but this is not what a typical user should do.
>
> Please consider downgrading this to important again.
>
> Given the soon starting soft freeze this is likely too late for trixie.
>
> Given the soft freeze rules and the automatic removal of packages with RC
> bugs, keeping this at RC level will leave debian trixie without this
> package and thus without support for gcin in neither qt6 not qt5/gtk/... .
>
> As i expect qt6 support to need a new binary package (gcin-qt6-immodule) it
> is now to late to fix this in trixie.
>
> The other possibility is of course keeping this bug RC and thus removing
> gcin from trixie completly. Which seem like a worse outcome.
>
>
Soft freeze has started in the meantime.
Even if qt6 support would be good, let's at least keep the existing toolkit
support.
Regards,
- Martin Hostettler
Reply to: