Bug#1107525: gnome-desktop: which input method should be the default for zh_HK in Debian 13?

[Simon McVittie]

Source: gnome-desktop
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-i18n at lists.debian.org, debian-l10n-chinese at lists.debian.org, debian-boot at lists.debian.org

The version of libgnome-desktop in trixie (44.1) currently defaults to 
ibus-table-cangjie5 for zh_HK, but we are now looking at updating to 
gnome-desktop 44.3, which changes the default to ibus-cangjie:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop/-/merge_requests/168

This reverts a change made in 2022 (between bullseye and bookworm) 
while ibus-cangjie was not being actively maintained: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ibus_table_cangjie_default_for_zh_hk

I'm looking for advice from the -i18n and -l10n-chinese lists: is 
ibus-cangjie a better default for speakers of Chinese in Hong Kong, or 
should we be keeping ibus-table-cangjie5?

Relatedly, the other Chinese locales with default input methods in 
libgnome-desktop are:

- ibus-libpinyin for zh_CN;
- ibus-chewing for zh_TW

which match up with the two Chinese GNOME metapackages in tasksel:

- task-chinese-s-gnome-desktop recommends ibus-libpinyin, matching zh_CN
- task-chinese-t-gnome-desktop recommends ibus-chewing, matching zh_TW

Should one of those metapackages pull in ibus-cangjie and/or 
ibus-table-cangjie5? If yes, which metapackage?

Thanks,
    smcv