Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 18:36 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-09-07 at 17:58, Phil Wyett wrote: > > > Review... > > > 7. Install [No previous installs]: Issue > > > > Install this package on a clean system/Virtual Machine (VM) and it > > installs a variety of dependencies but not the pidgin GUI. > > Speaking as someone who once used a similar pidgin-* plugin package: I > don't believe that this is an issue. > > My understanding is that this is a plugin intended to be available to be > used by *any* application which uses the libpurple backend, not > necessarily just pidgin. If that is correct, then it would be erroneous > for this to have a dependency chain which leads any single specific such > application to get installed. > > My experience with such plugins is most prominently with purple-discord, > which likewise identifies itself as a plugin for applications which use > libpurple, and which cites two of them: pidgin and finch. In addition to > naming those in the package description as examples of such > applications, it includes an Enhances: field, and lists the packages in > that field. > > It might make sense for other libpurple plugin packages to similarly > include an Enhances: field for the endpoint applications. Then again, > that would mean either inconsistency between the plugin packages in that > regard, or each one needing to keep up with updating the list whenever > an appropriate change is made to it in another plugin package; that > might not be worth the bother. > > It *is* a bit inconsistent that some of the libpurple plugin packages > seem to use the purple-* prefix and others the pidgin-* prefix. It would > probably be good to get that sorted out, but I don't know if here would > be the place to start doing it. >
Hi, Thanks for the information. Not that familiar with chat packages as I would like. I will agree with the last paragraph, having this package with 'pidgin' naming is extremely confusing for the user. True, here is not the place to start fixing this, the Bug Tracking System (BTS) is the place. I will look at the package again later and move forward with the review. Regards Phil -- "I play the game for the game’s own sake" Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans -- Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Matrix: #kathenas:matrix.org Website: https://kathenas.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/kathenasorg/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kathenasorg --
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