Hi and thank you for maintaining maliit packages in Debian!

I see there was some housekeeping between 2.3.0-6 and 2.3.0-7 , splitting
maliit-framework binary into maliit-server-qt{5,6} and maliit-inputcontext-qt{5,6}.
Maliit-framework depends on maliit-server-qt{5|6}, but recommends maliit-inputcontext-qt5.

On creation of Mobian images, Recommends are disabled by default for size reasons, that means
maliit-inputcontext-qt5 is not included and the virtual keyboard does not appear when required,
making the system almost unusable. I'm aware that Mobian's choice to disable Recommends is what
creates the issue, and we are working to enable Recommends by default in Mobian images.

But I'm wondering, is there any usage for maliit-server-qt5 without maliit-inputcontext-qt5 ?
Between these 2 packages there should be IMO a absolute dependency, to make sure they are always
installed together...

Kind regards
Marco

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
maliit-framework, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1124116@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> (supplier of updated maliit-framework package)

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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:13:32 +0200
Source: maliit-framework
Built-For-Profiles: derivative.ubuntu noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 2.3.0-11
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian UBports Team <team+ubports@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
Closes: 1124116
Changes:
 maliit-framework (2.3.0-11) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload
 .
   [ Jeremy Bícha ]
   * Add Depends: maliit-inputcontext-qt5 to maliit-server-qt5. Same for qt6.
     (Closes: #1124116)
   * Mark some Build-Depends as only needed for build tests
   * Opt into Salsa CI
   * Run wrap-and-sort -at
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 .
   [ Mike Gabriel ]
   * debian/control: Mark maliit-inputcontext-qt{5,6} as 'Multi-Arch: same'
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I am making this change now. One reason to not universally depend on
maliit-inputcontext-qt5 is that qt5 has reached End of Life and some
people may want to have a system without qt5 installed. I agree that
if someone has maliit-server-qt5 installed, then that concern doesn't
matter.

I don't think this minor packaging change helps with your bigger issue
though. maliit-inputcontext-qt5 is needed for you to use Maliit as
intended with qt5 apps. Debian Lomiri Unstable now uses maliit qt6
which proves that it is possible to have a system without
maliit-server-qt5 now. If Mobian needs to have
maliit-inputcontext-qt5. then I recommend that you update the Mobian
metapackage to depend on it. Similarly, there are an increasing number
of qt6 apps now, so you want support for qt6 also.

By the way, there is an interesting packaging trick we use for
ibus-gtk3 to avoid a direct dependency on gtk3. It's in the
override_dhslibdeps part of
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ibus/-/blob/master/debian/rules . In
that case, it's as simple as removing a single automatic dependency,
libgtk-3-0t64. It's awkward to use that technique for
maliit-inputcontext-qt5 since qt5 is split into many different binary
packages. I guess we could do it though. Then we could simply depend
on both maliit-inputcontext-qt5 and maliit-inputcontext-qt6 without
requiring qt5 to be installed where it isn't wanted.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha