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Remove text prediction feature for now
As presage has been unmaintained since 2018, among various other concerns with the feature and how the ngram databases are created, remove text prediction for now until a better implementation can be done, after keyboard layouts support has been refactored to be much simpler.
Also, maybe @sunweaver might have an opinion on this, as he's maintaining the packages in Debian for maliit now. Would be good for some feedback there.
As we want to replace lomiri-keyboard by maliit-keyboard in Ubuntu Touch 22.04, this feature will probably dearly be missed. For Debian, it is not so relevant, because people will never have used the presage feature in a Debian stable release.
Also, presage is in maintenance-only mode in Debian, as well: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/p/presage/presage_0.9.1-2.2_changelog
As we want to replace lomiri-keyboard by maliit-keyboard in Ubuntu Touch 22.04, this feature will probably dearly be missed. For Debian, it is not so relevant, because people will never have used the presage feature in a Debian stable release.
It worked quite poorly and it is something people commonly turn off as soon as they start using Ubuntu Touch. However, word completion with spell checking via hunspell is still working fine, if the dictionary for the language is installed.