Main Inclusion Report for sourcepackage

Requirements

1. Availability:

   • http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/skim, available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Input method is required by CJK people. 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,and skim is kde fronted for SCIM
   • 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

3. Security:

   • No security histroy.

4. Quality assurance:

   • SKIM is well maintained by LiuCougar.

   • SUSE and Mandriva shipped with SKIM, and no critical bugs has been found in them.

5. Standards compliance:

   • The package meets debian-policy and FHS.

6. Dependencies:

   • 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 (Chinese)
     • scim-chewing (Traditional Chinese )
     • scim-hangul (Korean)
     • scim-anthy (Japanese)

     • scim-m17n (http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/support_input_sum.html)

Reviewers

MartinPitt: approved