= Main Inclusion Report for sourcepackage =

== Requirements ==

 0. ''Availability:''
  * http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/scim, available for all supported architectures
 0. ''Rationale:''
  * Input method is required by many Asia users, like CJK people and Indian. It's a critical issue for them because they can't input their native language without it.
  * SCIM supports many laungages via scim-pinyin, scim-hangul, scim-anthy scim-tables, scim-m17n and so on.
  * Although there are a few candidates for multilingual input method framework such as IIIMF or uim, there are some critical problems in it.
    * uim lacks well supported chinese input methods.
    * IIIMF lacks well supported OSS input methods, lacks comfortable GUI. Some people pointed out security issues in its fundamental design.
  * See also MainInclusionReportScimAnthy
  * See also MainInclusionReportScimHangul
  * See also MainInclusionReportScimPinyin
  * See also MainInclusionReportScimChewing
  * See also MainInclusionReportScimTables
 0. ''Security:''
  * No security histroy.
 0. ''Quality assurance:''
  * SCIM is well maintained by Jame Su who is employed in Novell.
  * Fedora, SUSE and Mandriva shipped with SCIM, and no critical bugs has been found in them.
  * There are some binary compatibility issues related with libstdc++. Since libscim will be linked with all Gtk+ (and patched version of Qt) applications via its input method module system, and SCIM is written in C++, an application which is compiled against different version of C++ with SCIM will cause clash. This problem isn't reproduced when you use SCIM via XIM because it is a protocol based communication, not shared link.
    * http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/gtk_gnome/why_firefox_mozilla_acrobat_reader_7_other_gtk_2_based_apps_can_not_be_installed_started
 0. ''Standards compliance:'' 
  * The package meets debian-policy and FHS.
 0. ''Dependencies:''
  * All in main.
  * SCIM is just only a framework. Also some major IMEngines (language plugins for SCIM) should be included into main to realize true multilingual input. They are all in universe.
    * scim-pinyin (mainland China)
    * scim-chewing (Taiwan)
    * scim-hangul (Korea)
    * scim-anthy (Japan)
    * scim-tables (Hong Kong)
    * scim-m17n (http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/support_input_sum.html)

== Reviewers ==

MartinPitt: approved