Bug#888563: transition: fcitx

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: block -1 with 887711

On 27/01/18 05:37, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Dear Release Team,
> 
> I'm working to push fcitx 4.2.9.5 into unstable.
> Fcitx upstream bumped the SONAME of one of its libraries,
> libfcitx-gclient. This is a really tiny transition that only
> affects one package outside fcitx world (mlterm):
> 
> % LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt rdepends libfcitx-gclient0
> libfcitx-gclient0
> Reverse Depends:
>   Depends: fcitx-frontend-gtk2 (>= 4.2.9)
>   Depends: libfcitx-gclient0-dbgsym (= 1:4.2.9.4-3)
>   Depends: mlterm-im-fcitx (>= 4.2.7)
>   Depends: fcitx-imlist (>= 4.2.7)
>   Depends: fcitx-frontend-fbterm (>= 4.2.7)
>   Depends: fcitx-config-gtk (>= 4.2.7)
>   Depends: gir1.2-fcitx-1.0 (>= 4.2.9)
>   Depends: fcitx-libs-dev (= 1:4.2.9.4-3)
>   Depends: fcitx-libs (>= 1:4.2.9.4-3)
>   Depends: fcitx-frontend-gtk3 (>= 4.2.9)
> 
> I will handle every reverse-dependency named after fcitx
> (requesting binNMU or uploading the updated package).
> 
> As for package mlterm, I rebuilt it against the new fcitx. The build
> is okay but the program won't start. I've filed bug #887711 for it.
> If the bug cannot be fixed soon, I'm planning to disable mlterm's fcitx
> support in an NMU later.
> 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/887711
> 
> Automatic transition tracker:
> 
>     https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-fcitx.html
> 
> NB. the missing fcitx-module-quickphrase-editor there has no reverse-dependency
> thus
> does not affect the transition.

You can start the transition.

Cheers,
Emilio