Dear Maintainer,

Since Debian 13 Trixie will have multiple desktop environments and
applications built with QT6, we should build gcin with the QT6
immodule enabled to ensure compatibility with these QT6 applications
and desktops.

It seems the gcin upstream author does not provide a GitHub repository,
so I am unable to check the current status. However, I have cc'ed to
upstream author on this email and we look forward to his reply.

Additionally, please note that the Debian next release, Trixie, will
be frozen soon in March. We hope to get gcin with QT6 support in order
to include gcin in the official Trixie release.

Best regards,

control: severity -1 serious

Dear maintainer of gcin,

I'm raising the severity of this ticket. We are currently in the first
stage of the freeze for trixie, and this input method doesn't works
in desktop environments like KDE/LXQt and also other apps that uses QT6.

As a regular user. I'm unable to use this input method in any QT6
apps/environment. As an expert user I can switch to other input method,
but this is not what a typical user should do.

Kind regards,

Please consider downgrading this to important again.

Given the soon starting soft freeze this is likely too late for trixie.

Given the soft freeze rules and the automatic removal of packages with RC
bugs, keeping this at RC level will leave debian trixie without this
package and thus with support for gcin in neither qt6 not qt5/gtk/... .

As i expect qt6 support to need a new binary package (gcin-qt6-immodule) it
is now to late to fix this in trixie.

The other possibility is of course keeping this bug RC and this removing
gcin from trixie completly. Which seem like a worse outcome.

control: severity -1 important

Soft freeze has started in the meantime.

Even if qt6 support would be good, let's at least keep the existing toolkit
support.

Regards,

 - Martin Hostettler

Dear maintainer,

My attendation is that we need to do a health check for all the input
methods packages in Debian. As I maintain LXQt desktop. I noticed many
input methods doesn't support Qt6 immodule in Trixie. As we are
developers that we known such input method won't work on any
application without the corresponding immodule support. We should
remove these packages from Debian instead of keep the broken packages
for user to weaste their time to try.

Because for our users who has no such IMMODULE background knowloage,
may get into trouble that the input method not functional anymore
after an upgrade from bookworm to trixie. Or installed, it works on
some apps but not all.

So here I reset the severity to serious. Please get this fixed before
next stable release. Or we will very unlikely to ship gcin in stable
release.

Best regards,
-Andrew