Comment 37 for bug 1580463

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Reopening the ibus (ubuntu) task.

Background:
The change in ibus 1.5.19-1ubuntu3, which set the abstract socket path to 'unix:tmpdir=/tmp/ibus', was upstreamed and is now included in the 1.5.21 source. However, the path proved to not work well on BSD systems:

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2116

That resulted in a new upstream approach to make the path indistinguishable, and to make a long story short, the path is about to be changed in 1.5.22 to 'unix:tmpdir=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/ibus'. To prevent yet another change in this respect in the ff cycle, I propose that we change it in eoan again and add two upstream commits so Ubuntu 19.10 is released with the new (final?) path.

Proposed upload in this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/ibus