Bug#1122957: gnome-core DEPENDING on ibus breaks existing user configs using other input method frameworks

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM Mad Horse <equu at openmail.cc> wrote:
> From 1:49+8, gnome-core starts to DEPEND on ibus, which makes ibus being
> forcefully installed when existing users upgrade their gnome-core, and breaks
> existing gnome user configs using other input method frameworks such as fcitx.

Could you provide a detailed test case of how exactly ibus being
installed causes breakage?

We added the Depends because ibus not being installed broke some
keyboard input on GNOME on Wayland, at least for a fr_BE.UTF-8 locale
as described in the original bug https://bugs.debian.org/1115532 .

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha