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Bug#985222: Please unblock ibus



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Hi Gunnar

On 2021-03-14 17:03:23 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> 
> Hello Release Team,
> 
> I probably made a mistake. I uploaded ibus to unstable on 2021-03-03, and
> since it was well before 2021-03-12 I thought it would be treated as a Soft
> Freeze upload. But now I see at <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ibus> that
> it has been blocked by freeze since ibus is a key package.
> 
> The upload includes an upgrade to a new upstream release. At first hand I
> wanted to get the updated translations into bullseye. My reasoning behind
> bumping the upstream version follows.
> 
> The upstream changes are summarized here:
> 
> https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/tag/1.5.24
> 
> * The most important change, the addition of a GTK4 IM module, is a no-op
> for us at this time, since the upload was built without GTK4 support.
> 
> * The dialog to warn about deprecated IBus XKB engines is already in testing
> via a patch that cherry picks the upstream change.
> 
> * The other non-translation changes are minor (upstream) bug fixes and
> improvements, which I deemed to be within the scope of a Soft Freeze upload.
> 
> So if you agree that the changes are low risk, it would be great if you
> could unblock ibus and with that effectively treat the upload as a Soft
> Freeze one.
> 
> I attached the debdiff between testing and unstable. It's big.. But I ask
> you to evaluate it in the light of my reasoning above.

 208 files changed, 8499 insertions(+), 2691 deletions(-)

That's too much for us to review. Could you please provided a filtered
diff which only contains the relevant changes?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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