Bug#1120735: task-chinese-t-desktop: Please migrate away from fcitx4

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Package: task-chinese-t-desktop
Version: 3.84
Severity: normal
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Dear Debian tasksel maintainers and Traditional Chinese users/developers,

As a follow-up request to https://bugs.debian.org/1117875 , [2] and [3],
I am looking into the possibility to migrate the last usage of fcitx4 to ot=
her input
method framework implementation.

The fcitx 4.x input method framework does not support Wayland, is now offic=
ially dead and unmaintained.
It will be kept until after Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release [1]. The Traditional C=
hinese desktop task
is the last known component in Debian that still depends on fcitx 4.x at th=
e moment.

The migration from fcitx 4.x to fcitx 5.x should be straightforward. The pr=
evious concerns raised
in [3] should have been fully addressed. On the other hand, migrating to ib=
us for all Tranditional
Chinese desktop environments is also viable.

Please consider reviewing the current available Input Method frameworks in =
Debian and
make the switch at your convenience, but the decision should be made no lat=
er than the Debian Forky freeze
(~Dec 2026). Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang


[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html#dep=
recated-components-for-releasename
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-big5/2024/10/msg00000.html
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/commit/5da979474066d8=
ebe8c7283c788b920f9fdeb29a

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