Re: Dropping ibus-pinyin (or salvaging libpyzy)?
Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:06:32 +0200
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On 2020-04-29 05:51, Boyuan Yang wrote: > TL;DR: Let's drop package ibus-pinyin from Debian since it implicitly > (build- )depends on the unmaintained python2. If we want to save it, > considerable amount of work need to be done. FWIW I want to mention that porting ibus-pinyin itself to py3 isn't very hard. I did that last year as an experiment: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/ibus-pinyin/+packages But the main obstacle seems to be libpyzy, which I have never looked at.