Bug#926018: unblock: uim/1:1.8.8-4

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

Followup-For: Bug #926018
Package: release.debian.org

Dear Release Team,

This bug is critical to Japanese desktop users, otherwise it is hard
to type Japanese text on the desktop after it is dist-upgraded from
Stretch. With uim installation in current testing version (1:1.8.8-3)
upgraded from Stretch version (1:1.8.6+gh20161003.0.d63dadd-2) every
user needs to do the following cumbersome procedure in order to type
any Japanese text:

1) Open the application you want to type text into.
2) Click the leftmost button on the uim-toolbar. A LONG LONG menu
listing all the installed IMs are appeared. Notice that `m17n-unicode'
is selected, which is not a Japanese input method (IM).
3) Scroll down the list to reach its bottom.
4) Click your favorite Japanese IM listed at the bottom, like `Mozc'
or `Anthy (UTF-8)'.

Note this setting (an IM selection) is temporary, so do this each time
after login.

Or

1) Click the rightmost button `Preference' on the uim-toolbar.
2) Click `Edit...' in the `Enabled input methods'.
3) Select all the IMs excluding the one you want to use (e.g. a
Japanese IM `Mozc' or `Anthy (UTF-8)') in the `Enabled' box.
4) Move the selected IMs to the `Disabled' box.
5) Click `Close'.
6) Click `OK'.

Then this setting (an IM selection order) is permanent to the user.

This is far from a working Japanese desktop out-of-the-box. The
maintainers and I consider this problem must be fixed for Buster.

This is caused by the merge of some binary packages in
1:1.8.6+gh20161003.0.d63dadd-5~exp1. We did not notice the bad
behavior because this does not happen in some situation, like a fresh
installation. The version in sid (1:1.8.8-4) reverts the merge and
fixes the problem.

Please consider unblocking uim.

Thanks in advance,

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