Re: RFS: pidgin-privacy-please
So, after all these fun discussions, anyone interested? :)
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Stefan Ott <stefan@ott.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 09:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Stefan Ott <stefan@ott.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-privacy-please".
>>>
>>> The upstream website says this requires pidgin itself to be patched,
>>> has the Debian pidgin package integrated that patch?
>>
>> Last I checked, no.
>>
>> Here's the comment from the p-p-p upstream README [0]:
>> Since version 2.3.0, pidgin includes the auth-signals patch,
>> thus you'll only need to apply the patch for blocked-signals. If
>> you choose not to apply that patch, pidgin-privacy-please won't
>> be able to send auto-replies when a message has been blocked.
>>
>> While I'm not against the idea of those signals, sending an auto-reply
>> when a message is blocked seems pretty counter-intuitive to me.
>
> In situations where you block all messages from people who are not on
> your contact list, an auto-reply telling them to request your
> authorization first is quite handy.
>
> cheers
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> Stefan Ott
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>
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Stefan Ott
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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." -- Timothy Leary
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