Bug#782448: ITP: telepathy-gabble-legacy -- Jabber/XMPP connection manager (legacy branch)
On 12/04/15 12:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> * Package name : telepathy-gabble-legacy
...
> NB! This is an older legacy branch of Gabble with Tubes API, requires
> for use with Sugar. If you do not need Tubes API then you are strongly
> recommended to instead use the regular telepathy-gabble package.
I consider the (re-)addition of this package to be unwise.
The Tubes channel type was deprecated in favour of the StreamTube and
DBusTube channel types in May 2009. Depending how you count, it was
removed from Gabble more than 3 years later (development version 0.17.1)
or more than 4 years later (stable version 0.18.0); it's not as if this
was some sudden flag-day transition. The reason for deprecation was that
Tubes channels are not usable by telepathy-mission-control, or
particularly meaningful at all: the sensible unit for dispatching is an
individual tube within the channel. sugar-presence-service does
essentially the same things as Mission Control, so having it dispatch
singular Tube channels to applications (either directly or by using
Mission Control) would probably be a considerable simplification.
> The packaging will be maintained by the Debian Sugar Team - unless the
> Debian Telepathy maintainers is willing to take over (hence Cc'ed) :-)
I am not a member of the Telepathy team any more, either upstream or in
Debian, but I was at the time this version was released. I would
recommend that neither they nor you should keep this branch on life-support.
S
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