Source: ibus
Version: 1.5.32-2
Tags: forky sid

Please update ibus to 1.5.33.

One significant change is an update to make it work better with gdm
49. I was unable to get ibus to work on GNOME's login screen, even
with Debian 13 (using gdm 48). Please let me know if you can provide
instructions for how to do this.

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/c158800
- "Since GDM 49 version, gdm user doesn't exist". This is true for the
Arch Linux package, but not for Debian currently.
- Debian has a gdm user and group, both named Debian-gdm
- Debian's gdm3 maintainers may remove the Debian-gdm user in the
future (like Arch Linux did). The group might also be renamed to _gdm
at that time.
- So I think we should patch ibus's new panel_extension_disable_groups
function to add "Debian-gdm" and "_gdm" to the list. I would do this
myself, but like I said, I wasn't able to test if this was working
correctly.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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