Re: Ibus: caps-lock for upper case accented letters does not work anymore

Boyuan Yang <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:20:17 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Organization	Debian Project
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

在 2024-02-01星期四的 22:41 +0100，[email protected]写道：
> Il giorno gio, 01/02/2024 alle 13.39 -0500, Boyuan Yang ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 在 2024-01-25星期四的 21:25 +0100，Domenico Cufalo写道：
> > > Follow up Debian Bug report #1054214
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054214
> > > 
> > > There is an important issue with v. 1.5.29~rc1-1, which affects
> > > Debian 12 (with backports) and Trixie/Sid.
> > > With italian keyboard layout it is no longer possible to type the
> > > following characters, normally reachable via caps-lock: ÀÈÉÌÒÙ.
> > > 
> > > Reverting to v. 1.5.27-5, all works fine.
> > 
> > I am not sure what we can do. What do you expect Debian to act on?
> > Do you have a known solution, such as a patch to be applied to
> > certain
> > version of package in Debian? Is it a specific bug that should be
> > fixed
> > via Backports? Please provide more information so that a fix can
> > really
> > be possible.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Boyuan Yang
> 
> Yes, I understand.
> The problem is that this bug affects Italian, French and probably all
> languages with similar characters.
> 
> The simplest solution might be to completely remove this buggy package
> from backports, but here
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054214) was found a
> patch for mutter 44.8-2 that fixed the issue on Sid.
> 
> I don't know if this patch is also suitable for Bookworm, but I doubt
> it.
> 
> Evaluate for yourself what the best solution is for this case. As for
> me, I'm giving up on this backport for now.

Forwarding the email to Gunnar, because the backported version was made
by them. Gunnar, could you take a look at it?

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang

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