The packaging is fully functional, and I just updated it to version 1.0.0beta5. I'm just waiting on the OK from upstream that he thinks its ready for upload to Debian, as well as word from the Gajim maintainer about packaging the included gajim-otr plugin. You can get versions compiled for Ubuntu here: https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/ppa Or you can get the source from git and build with git-buildpackage