Bug#983653: task-japanese-gnome-desktop: no Japanese input method available out of the box

[YOSHINO Yoshihito <yy.y.ja.jp@gmail.com>]

Package: task-japanese-gnome-desktop
Version: 3.64
Severity: grave
Tags: bullseye l10n patch
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-japanese@lists.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

On a fresh bullseye installation of Japanese GNOME desktop,
its user cannot type Japanese text out of the box.

A fresh buster installation of Japanese GNOME desktop
dist-upgraded to bullseye is also affected.

Note that a fresh buster installation of Japanese GNOME desktop itself
is not affected.

This is caused by the change in the gnome-shell package (Bug#815050) to add
"Recommends: ibus", which breaks any non-ibus input method framework
(Bug#941624),
especially uim (mainly used by Japanese users) and fcitx (mainly used
by Chinese users),
while reverting the change is perhaps not feasible to western language
users for emoji support.

Adding some Japanese input method to the ibus framework should work
around the problem
for Japanese users. Specifically, adding Recommends: ibus-mozc (or ibus-anthy on
architectures where mozc is not available) to this package should work
around the problem.
The attached patch should apply the work-around.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
YOSHINO Yoshihito <yy.y.ja.jp@gmail.com>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages task-japanese-gnome-desktop depends on:
ii  tasksel  3.64

Versions of packages task-japanese-gnome-desktop recommends:
ii  thunderbird          1:78.7.1-1
ii  thunderbird-l10n-ja  1:78.7.1-1

task-japanese-gnome-desktop suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- tasksel-3.64/debian/control	2021-02-15 02:01:51.000000000 +0900
+++ tasksel-3.64/debian/control	2021-02-28 13:04:16.335684227 +0900
@@ -1423,6 +1423,7 @@
  This task localises the GNOME desktop in Japanese.
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
 Recommends:
+	ibus-mozc | ibus-anthy,
 # evolution has a problem for Japanese, for example it uses always UTF-8
 # subject instead of iso-2022-jp used Japanese de-facto. I recommend
 # thunderbird as default mailer for Japanese desktop users.