Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On 05/08/2013 09:29 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: >>> If you are using a phone, chances are >90% Facebook actually provides >>> an app which is much better than the plugin for your particular phone. >> >> Yes but that app is not free software? > > It is. I th

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/08/2013 09:29 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: If you are using a phone, chances are >90% Facebook actually provides an app which is much better than the plugin for your particular phone. Yes but that app is not free software? It is. But that's not the

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > If you are using a phone, chances are >90% Facebook actually provides > an app which is much better than the plugin for your particular phone. Yes but that app is not free software? > Also, why would you want to use desktop software on a phone? That's > rather

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/08/2013 08:58 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: But to fetch them I need to use a browser? Debian does not ship chromium for ARM at the moment and most phones have ARM CPUs. If you are using a phone, chances are >90% Facebook actually provides an app which is much better than the plugin fo

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > point 2), however. How can I miss old messages? You're either logged > in to chat or you're not. If you are online, you get all the messages, > if not they're delivered to your Facebook inbox where you can fetch > them. But to fetch them I need to use a browser

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/08/2013 06:54 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: This package should be removed as it has become obsolete since Facebook has implemented full support for XMPP which is supported by Pidgin. Installing the plugin is no longer required to use Facebook chat with

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > This package should be removed as it has become obsolete since > Facebook has implemented full support for XMPP which is supported by > Pidgin. Installing the plugin is no longer required to use Facebook > chat with Pidgin. I don't think it supports 1) group ch

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2013-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
This package should be removed as it has become obsolete since Facebook has implemented full support for XMPP which is supported by Pidgin. Installing the plugin is no longer required to use Facebook chat with Pidgin. Also, the plugin has been out of development by upstream for nearly three y

Bug#681659: pidgin-facebookchat: unusable without facebook so belongs in contrib

2012-07-15 Thread Bart Martens
Package: pidgin-facebookchat Severity: serious I think that pidgin-facebookchat needs facebook so it requires "software outside of the distribution to function". Please move pidgin-facebookchat to section contrib. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib Regards, Bart M