Remove Python2 for 18.04?

[Bryan Quigley]

Unfortunately I seem to have missed that all the pinyin options
require python2 at this time -so it's a moot discussion for now.
I did find that there is another alternative in ibus-libpinyin which I
got some positive feedback on.

cifs-utils is still worth discussing anyway, but we can move that to
community.ubuntu.com for more feedback.

Thanks!
Bryan

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2017-10-27 21:22, Bryan Quigley wrote:
>>
>>
>> * ibus-sunpinyin
>>
>> Was added 9/2017 [2] as part of moving from fcitx.
>
>
> Right. Choosing ibus-sunpinyin was not preceded by any deeper
> considerations. It was the preferred input method last time Ubuntu's default
> IM framework for Simplified Chinese was IBus, and has been pulled by
> language-selector (pkg_depends) after that for Ubuntu GNOME.
>
>> This package hasn't been updated since 2013.  Previously we've added
>> it to the desktop session and then removed for ibus-pinyin for size
>> (and in this case it seems better maintained).
>
>
> GNOME seems to default to ibus-libpinyin:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/tree/libgnome-desktop/default-input-sources.h
>
> That would speak for replacing ibus-sunpinyin with ibus-libpinyin on both
> the live CD and language-selector. But we should probably try to get
> opinions from some Chinese users before making this change.
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj