Comment 27 for bug 338217

Guys, do as you please. You're not doing Ubuntu a favor by withholding this documentation, that's for sure. Having it documented is better than the current situation. Who knows, it's quite well possible this problem was introduced by one of Ubuntu's ill-guided patches in the past. FWIW, I don't get this kind of report from Debian users.

As Debian maintainer of the scim package and part of the upstream team, you may as well stop second-guessing my judgment about upstream's activities. We're all just there to keep the project limping along, I don't see any real development work for years.

If you have a better solution, we'd be all ears, but don't expect upstream to do original dev work for you. By doing so and withholding an incremental improvement from your user base you are doing them a disservice.