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Review: librime 1.17.0+dfsg2-1

Package Information

DescriptionRime Input Method Engine

RIME is the acronym of Rime Input Method Engine.

RIME is a lightweight, extensible input method engine supporting various input schematas including glyph-based input methods, romanization-based input methods as well as those for Chinese dialects. It has the ability to compose phrases and sentences intelligently and provide very accurate traditional Chinese output. RIME's cross-platform core library is written in C++, and can work consistently on different platforms with OS-specific wrappers.

MaintainerDebian Input Method Team <debian-input-method@lists.debian.org>
Changed ByBoyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Sponsorbyang@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team/librime.git (browse)
Popcon Installs420
Binary NEWYes (new binary packages of a source already in sid)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/librime
Uploaded19 days ago

New Package Report

.changes◂
Sourcelibrime
Version1.17.0+dfsg2-1
Changed-ByBoyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateSat, 03 Oct 2026 10:06:39 -0400
Changelog◂
librime (1.17.0+dfsg2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Include source code for librime-predict extension.
   * Add new binary package librime-plugin-predict.
     + debian/librime-plugin-predict.README.Debian: Document how to get
       the prediction database and enable the plugin in a schema.
   * Refresh plugin version:
     + octagram: 20260831. This fixes the encoding of code points outside
       U+4000..U+9FFF, needed by the current octagram language models,
       and relicenses the plugin under BSD-3-Clause.
   * debian/patches/0003-plugins-install-the-data-build-tools.patch:
     Install the build_predict and build_grammar tools.
   * librime-bin: Ship them as rime_build_predict and rime_build_grammar.
   * debian/patches/0004-dict-install-the-bundled-darts-clone-header.patch:
     Ship the darts-clone header in librime-dev as rime/dict/darts.h, so
     that the installed private header rime/dict/prism.h no longer picks
     up /usr/include/darts.h from the darts package.
   * debian/patches/0005-refactor-support-c-20.patch: Backport upstream
     commit 7cb3e50a to make the installed private headers usable with
     C++20, the default standard of GCC 16.
   * debian/watch: Add librime-predict component; bump repack suffix
     to +dfsg2.
   * debian/gbp.conf: Add librime-predict component.
   * debian/rules: Build the predict plugin with its own version number.
   * debian/control:
     + Let librime1t64 recommend librime-plugin-predict.
     + Let librime-plugin-octagram suggest rime-data-octagram.
     + Drop unused build-dependency on darts. librime bundles darts-clone
       (include/darts.h) and always builds against it; the darts package
       is the incompatible original Darts library.
     + Let librime-dev suggest libboost-dev, libgoogle-glog-dev,
       libmarisa-dev and x11proto-dev, which the installed private
       headers include.
   * debian/copyright:
     + Correct the license of the main source code to BSD-3-Clause, as
       stated in upstream LICENSE and the file headers.
     + Add entries for cmake/RimeConfig.cmake and cmake/FindIconv.cmake.
     + Add entry for librime-predict.
     + Update license of librime-octagram to BSD-3-Clause.
     + Correct the entry for include/darts.h, which is darts-clone.
     + Use the BSD-3-Clause license text of upstream LICENSE.
.dsc◂
Sectionutils
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listlibrime-bin deb utils optional arch=any
librime-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
librime-plugin-charcode deb libs optional arch=any
librime-plugin-lua deb libs optional arch=any
librime-plugin-octagram deb libs optional arch=any
librime-plugin-predict deb libs optional arch=any
librime1t64 deb libs optional arch=any
debian/copyright◂
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: librime
Source: https://github.com/rime/librime
Files-Excluded:
 bin/*
 deps/*
 include/utf8/*
 include/utf8.h

Files: *
Copyright: 2011-2024, GONG Chen <chen.sst@gmail.com>
           2014, RIME Developers
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files: cmake/RimeConfig.cmake
Copyright: 2012, Xuetian Weng
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files: cmake/FindIconv.cmake
Copyright: Eddy Xu <eddyxu@gmail.com>
License: BSD-3-Clause
Comment: The file only says "Released under BSD license". It is not used
 in the Debian build: debian/patches/0002 removes it.

Files: include/X11/*
Copyright: 1987, 1994, 1988 The Open Group
           1987, Digital Equipment Corporation
License: ISC-variant
 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
 documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
 the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
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 documentation.
 .
 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 .
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 OPEN GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
 AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 .
 Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall not be
 used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings
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 .
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 ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS
 SOFTWARE.

Files: include/darts.h
Copyright: 2008-2013, Susumu Yata
License: BSD-3-Clause
Comment: This is darts-clone, not the original Darts library by Taku Kudo.

Files: librime-lua/*
Copyright: 2021, librime-lua Developers
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files:
 librime-lua/src/lib/lauxlib-compat.c
Copyright: 2015 Kepler Project
License: Expat

Files:
 librime-lua/src/lib/lutf8lib-compat.c
Copyright:
 1994-2018 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
License: Expat

Files:
 librime-octagram/*
Copyright:
 2014-2026 RIME Developers
 2019-2021 GONG Chen <chen.sst@gmail.com>
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files:
 librime-charcode/*
Copyright:
 2019-2021 RIME Developers
 2012-2021 GONG Chen <chen.sst@gmail.com>
 2016 osfans <waxaca@163.com>
 2014 Chongyu Zhu <i@lembacon.com>
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files: librime-predict/*
Copyright: 2023, RIME Developers
License: BSD-3-Clause

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2012, Qijiang Fan <fqj1994@gmail.com>
           2017, Boyuan Yang <073plan@gmail.com>
License: GPL-3.0-only

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Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 19 days ago, started 19 days ago, completed 19 days ago.

Final Comment

Hi,

Thanks for the license fixes.

Looking closer I can see that librime-lua/src/script_translator.cc, table_translator.cc, translator.h, types_ext.cc — headers say Copyright (C) 2023/2022 Shewer Lu shewer@gmail.com … Distributed under terms of the MIT license.
Also librime-lua/sample/lua/{commit_history,component_test,leveldb,script_translator,table_translator,userdb}.lua — same MIT/Shewer Lu headers (2022–2024).

Additionally Files: debian/* (lines 105–108) says License: GPL-3.0-only, but debian/debian-rime-processor is explicitly CC0-1.0 (its header: SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0, lines 5–6). That file is also shipped to users via librime-bin (debian/librime-bin.install). Fix: add a stanza for debian/debian-rime-processor with License: CC0-1.0 (+ text), or a blanket CC0 policy. Minor.

Please fix these in your next upload.

Thanks!

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1.17.0+dfsg2-1 c65b78c7… 2026-10-03 05:31 2026-10-03 05:51 awm rejected VIEW

Public Notes

19 days ago ● public

Missed Author Check

Command: dnq author-check -prepare
Exit code: 0

Author check: scanned 428 files.

NOT IN debian/copyright (1):

  Shewer Lu <shewer@gmail.com>
    librime-lua/sample/lua/commit_history.lua:4
    librime-lua/sample/lua/component_test.lua:4
    librime-lua/sample/lua/leveldb.lua:4
    librime-lua/sample/lua/script_translator.lua:4
    librime-lua/sample/lua/table_translator.lua:4
    ... and 5 more files

Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 1 author not in debian/copyright

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