Remove Python2 for 18.04?

[flocculant]

Not sure if any of this gnome language stuff is going to cause us issue 
like it has in the past. re trusty LTS bug(s)

Never really sure about any gnome statements that it ' only affects us' 
things anymore, consequently forwarding to us.

starting to think the same about mainbuntu - don't believe anything 
deliberate, but fairly sure they'd not check either.

Kev



On 27/10/17 22:49, Gunnar Hjalmarsson 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.
>