[pkg-anthy-devel] Bug#874708: anthy (EUCJP->UTF-8) and *-anthy packages

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:28:13AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
>
> What exactly is the problem the missing library causes? This sounds
> like a normal library transition that Debian does all the time. The
> old library (libanthy0) is removed because everything in Debian will
> build against the new library (libanthy1).

No ABI change is involved.  Data passed from library call is now encoded
in UTF-8 instead of EUCJP by the new library (or I should say the new
library use new data in anthy-common in UTF-8)

> Osamu, can we lower the severity of this bug so that this package can
> migrate to testing?

See below.

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:04:54PM +0900, dai at debian.org wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> 1:0.3-6 has been uploaded. Can we close this bug?

Actually, we may need to upload few manually updated packages.

One package just uploaded with such manual patch by NOKUBI Takatsugu.

  ibus-anthy_1.5.9-2.1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED unstable

So at least anthy is usable with ibus now in unstable.

Are *-anthy packages uploaded to cope with this new anthy just like ibus-anthy?
 fcitx-anthy
 hime-anthy
 scim-anthy
 uim-anthy

Otherwise, they are broken in unstable now. (I did not have time to test
them yet)

Even these are updated with manual patches, all these updated package
needs to move together from unstable to testing.  I am not very familiar
with this ABI breaking library update.  We may need to add BREAKS: to
anthy to ensure this.  (I am not sure)  That may reqire to upload -7 for
anthy.

Anyway, these need to be properly coordinated.

Jeremy, your guidance is highly appreciated.

Osamu