[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#650459: telepathy-gabble description should mention Facebook Chat

Jason Rhinelander jagerman at jagerman.com
Tue Nov 29 21:51:59 UTC 2011


Package: telepathy-gabble
Version: 0.13.7-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

It would be very helpful to add " and Facebook Chat" to the end of the
telepathy-gabble description (i.e. "..., including Google Talk and
Facebook Chat.".  When telepathy-gabble is installed, a "Facebook Chat"
protocol appears in Empathy, but it isn't obvious that this is a
Jabber/XMPP connection, and the package description as currently written
doesn't suggest that installing telepathy-gabble will give me Facebook
Chat support.

I recently removed telepathy-gabble package (among a bunch of other
upgrades), and the Facebook Chat account type in Empathy disappeared; I
didn't realize it at first, and by the time I did, I'd forgotten about
removing telepathy-gabble.  My mistake, I realize, but when trying to
figure out what I needed to install again to get it working, it took me
some time; in particular, `apt-cache search facebook' doesn't list
telepathy-gabble, and it isn't obvious that telepathy-gabble is the
needed package.

As I understand it, many moons ago, to get Facebook Chat working
required adding Jabber/XMPP support, then configuring the facebook
Jabber server info yourself; since Empathy now treats "Facebook Chat" as
a protocol distinct from Jabber (from the user's perspective), it would
be very useful to have this added to the description of telepathy-gabble,
as is currently the case for Google Talk (which also appears as a
distinct "Protocol" option in Empathy).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages telepathy-gabble depends on:
ii  libc6               2.13-21     
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.5.8-1     
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.98-1      
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.30.2-4    
ii  libgnutls26         2.12.14-3   
ii  libnice10           0.1.1-1     
ii  libsoup2.4-1        2.36.1-1    
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.9-2     
ii  libtelepathy-glib0  0.16.2-1    
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-5

telepathy-gabble recommends no packages.

telepathy-gabble suggests no packages.

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