On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 09:52:56AM +0530, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [dropping Cc's, assuming all are subscribed to -devel] > > Quoting James Cameron (2015-12-26 08:58:13) > > Pull request 282 mentions 0.17.25, but of what package? When did the > > Tubes API get removed from the Telepathy packages? Yes, for Fedora it > > was 22, but we care about other downstreams. > > telepathy-gabble is where Tubes interface was dropped.
Thanks! I wasn't sure it was, because Gabble is only used when operating with Jabber/XMPP servers, and we also use Salut for link-local. So in the scenario where activities are collaborating over Salut, I wonder how their use of Tubes is implemented, if at all. > > On Ubuntu 14.04 builds with Sugar 0.107.0, I'm using > [...] > > telepathy-gabble-legacy 0.16.7 > > > On Ubuntu 15.10 builds with Sugar 0.107.0, I'm using > [...] > > telepathy-gabble-legacy 0.16.7 > > Who _maintains_ that telepathy-gabble-legacy package? Nobody at the moment. > I created such > package and put it online at http://debian.jones.dk/ but was strongly > adviced against releasing it officially to Debian (read: step up as > maintainer for it) and decided to follow that advice mainly due to the > security implications (the code is big and contains e.g. TLS code likely > to be vulnerable to BEAST and other recent attacks which I am not > skilled to fix). I'm not aware of any reported vulnerabilities specific to the package. > > I don't have a test case for collaboration failure due to Tubes API > > missing. The feature page doesn't say. I can't find a bug report. > > As I recall, Chat via Jabber (i.e. when connected to a central server) > uses Tubes. > > Please someone correct me if wrong, and provide some other simple test.. > > > > It would seem that the Tubes API was fairly critical to Sugar's > > success. ;-) > > I wholeheartedly agree. I decided to drop Sugar completely from what > became the current stable release of Debian in the spring, when I > learned about this bug after we had entered the "freeze" of that release > about a year ago. I dearly hope that Sugar can soon re-enter Debian > testing again - not only for inclusion into next stable Debian, but also > for the benefit of Debian derivatives invcluding Ubuntu (so please to > not relax about the very slow release process of Debian). I agree, getting Sugar back into Debian would be good. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel