Main Inclusion Report for scim-bridge

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/scim-bridge; available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • As scim is currently unusable in Hardy and scim-bridge provides a workaround which solves all the problems we currently have, we should use scim-bridge by default. LP bugs which would be solved for the time being:

     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/2246

     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/66104

     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/92932

     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/94310

     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/100030

     • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/155780

     • and maybe more.

3. Security:

   • /usr/bin/scim-bridge is running as daemon
   • No network activity. Uses Unix Domain Sockets by default.

4. Quality assurance:

   • 'im-switch -s scim-bridge' needs to be run once to set the environment variables right.
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No.

   • Debian bugs: nothing serious

   • Maintenance in Debian vigorous

   • Upstream is vigorous

   • Upstream bug tracker: none

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant

   • Packaging system: debhelper, dpatch

6. Dependencies:

   • Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), autotools-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.1-1),

   scim-dev (>= 1.4.6-1), dpatch, libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.6), libqt4-dev

   • Depends: scim-modules-socket, scim | skim
   • all in main

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/196387

• ArneGoetje

• ColinWatson (seems generally reasonable; I made a few minor edits)