resending as text-only now, because unfortunately my buggy TB defaults to HTML
Dear Osamu-San, thank you for your report. On 24.11.2011 21:26, Osamu Aoki wrote: > New upstreams have been available: > * scim 1.4.10 has been released on Sunday 05 June 2011 > * scim 1.4.11 has been released on Sunday 07 August 2011 > * Today is 24 November 2011 > Prompt packaging is one sign of good package maintenance situation which > gives sense of security for security risk management. Your recent tendency for a lecturing tone is absolutely uncalled for. You are listed as maintainer/uploader and only very recently and very much out of the blue expressed your wish to no longer be active in this role. Debian's and my position is to release when it's ready and the two releases you mention above are faulty. I know this because I've inspected them in a timely manner and you obviously haven't bothered. Look at upstream bug tracker and you will see that I'm very active in dealing with upstream to improve the next release. > Also, please drop README.Qt and make appropriate changes elsewhere. > > As we discussed, here is confirmation of my position is that > this package should be dropped from the archive: > REASON: > * there is a very similar package in better shape, namely ibus. > * scim upstream is not active enough for security support. > * scim has not been updated its autotools tool chain and QT4 support It's fine to hear you prefer ibus over scim and I suppose over time the former will eventually replace the latter. But from what I see ibus still has many rough edges and did not deliver as promised (some of the unresolved issues in scim equally affect ibus although that was not supposed to happen). Overall, CJKV support is still not as polished as everyone hopes it would be. Please have a look at popcon and realize that scim users still outnumber ibus users 20 to 1 and that gap is actually widening, not closing. Scim upstream and my maintenance of the package are active, your calls for removal are absolutely premature and counterproductive. With best regards Rolf Leggewie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
