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This is a re-do of #4220 (from @TheRetroMars), slightly modified to prevent build errors because of our Debian package requiring fcitx-libs-dev (i.e. package control file).

From #4220:

Remove fcitx-libs-dev on recent Debian/Ubuntu versions, since fcitx-libs-dev is for Fcitx 4 and on Debian 12+ or Ubuntu 24.04+ the default input method is fcitx5. Since fcitx-libs-dev conflicts with fcitx5, apt will remove fcitx5 if SDL2 is build. Also, official Debian 12+ packages for SDL2 no longer use fcitx-libs-dev.

NOTE: this needs https://github.com/cmitu/SDL/tree/retropie-2.32.11 to be included in https://github.com/RetroPie/SDL. The branch incorporated the latest fixes from the upstream project 2.32.x branch as it may not get any version bumps in the near future (see https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-future-support/68372)

This is a re-do of RetroPie#4220, slightly modified to prevent build errors because of Debian package requiring `fcitx-libs-dev`.

From RetroPie#4220:

Remove `fcitx-libs-dev` on recent Debian/Ubuntu versions, since `fcitx-libs-dev` is for Fcitx 4 and on Debian 12+ or Ubuntu 24.04+ the default input method is fcitx5. Since `fcitx-libs-dev` conflicts with `fcitx5`, `apt` will remove `fcitx5` if SDL2 is build. Also, official Debian 12+ packages for SDL2 no longer use fcitx-libs-dev.
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