Comment 24 for bug 1768166

Call for testing
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I hope for help by both Ping-Wu (the bug reporter) and other Chinese users to test the proposed upgrade of the ibus-libpinyin package in Ubuntu 18.04. I have subscribed the Ubuntu CJK Testers team to this bug report to reach out to more possible testers.

"Intelligent Pinyin", which is provided by ibus-libpinyin, is the default input method in Ubuntu for inputting Simplified Chinese. While we want to address the crash problem reported in this bug, we want to minimize the regression risk.

The new versions of the affected packages are available in bionic-proposed. These are the steps to install them:

1. Enable bionic-proposed
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* Open Software & Updates and select the "Developer Options" tab.

* Check the "Pre-released updates" option.

2. Update the package information on your system
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sudo apt update

3. Install/upgrade the packages
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sudo apt install ibus-libpinyin libpinyin-data libpinyin13

(Please note that it's not sufficient for this test to only upgrade ibus-libpinyin.)

4. Disable bionic-proposed
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* Open Software & Updates and select the "Developer Options" tab.

* Uncheck the "Pre-released updates" option.

5. Update the package information on your system
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sudo apt update

With that your system is back to normal, except for those three packages from -proposed. You can confirm that you got the right versions by using this command:

dpkg-query -W ibus-libpinyin libpinyin-data libpinyin13

It should show this info:

ibus-libpinyin 1.11.0-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
libpinyin-data:amd64 2.2.2-1~ubuntu18.04.1
libpinyin13:amd64 2.2.2-1~ubuntu18.04.1

Then I simply ask you to use "Intelligent Pinyin" for your daily needs, and submit a comment here after a few days about your experience. Any kinds of comments are helpful, both "works well" and info about issues you stumble upon. Most important, of course, is that no new issues are introduced via this upgrade.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!