Main Inclusion Report for sourcepackage

Requirements

1. Availability:

   • http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/scim, 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.
   • 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

3. Security:

   • No security histroy.

4. 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

5. Standards compliance:

   • The package meets debian-policy and FHS.

6. 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 (Chinese)
     • scim-hangul (Korean)
     • scim-anthy (Japanese)

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

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