Re: Dropping ibus-pinyin (or salvaging libpyzy)?

Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:06:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.chinese.gb,gmane.linux.debian.user.chinese.big5
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.