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Bug 770358 - IM status plugin: Remove Gossip support
IM status plugin: Remove Gossip support
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: Plugins (other)
3.4
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-08-24 22:36 UTC by Stefan Nagy
Modified: 2016-09-10 10:35 UTC
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Description Stefan Nagy 2016-08-24 22:36:39 UTC 
The plugin info of IM status still claims that Gossip is supported.

AFAIK the last version of Gossip (0.31) was released in August 2008, Gossip was moved to GNOME's attic (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Attic/Gossip) and Vincent Untz, the original developer, states on his website that "Empathy and Gossip are currently supported" (see http://www.vuntz.net/projets/rhythmbox/).

I didn't really test if IM status still supports Gossip 0.31 but I guess it makes no sense to claim support for a dead IM.
Comment 1 gnome.vrb 2016-08-25 13:36:37 UTC 
I made an attempt to get gossip working with IM status. But, I've not been able to build gossip ( 0.31 ) in debian unstable and stable ( which has old libs ) too. 

"./configure" fails as below:

checking for LIBGOSSIP... configure: error: Package requirements (
   libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.16
   glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0
   gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
   gobject-2.0
   gconf-2.0
   dbus-1 >= 0.61 dbus-glib-1
   gnome-vfs-2.0
   gnome-keyring-1
   
) were not met:

No package 'gconf-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-vfs-2.0' found

Bugs for last 6 years: http://bit.ly/2biBf1N. All have been closed as WONTFIX.

So, it would be better off hiding / removing gossip reference anywhere in rhythmbox / plugins, from the user.
Comment 2 gnome.vrb 2016-08-25 13:38:34 UTC 
As part of the above, I have tested IM status plugin to work well with pidgin ( debian unstable ) and Empathy ( ubuntu 16.04 )
Comment 3 Jonathan Matthew 2016-08-27 05:27:10 UTC 
The code for gossip was removed in 2012.  We just forgot to take it out of the plugin description.  I'm not doing that just yet because I'm probably putting out a 3.4.1 bugfix release soon and I don't want to mess up translations.
Comment 4 Jonathan Matthew 2016-09-10 10:35:55 UTC 
commit 3fd82fc removes gossip from the description