Bug#327881: gossip: 'composing' message triggers new message notification

[Sam Morris]

Package: gossip
Version: 0.9-1.1
Severity: normal

Since I upgraded to 0.9, Gossip has been firing off the 'new message' sound +
flashing notification area icon seemingly at random while talking to
another Jabber user. Today I found about LM_DEBUG=ALL and discovered that this
is what is triggering the event:

RECV [161]:
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'<message xmlns='jabber:client' to='sam at robots.org.uk/home' from='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at jabber.org/Home'>
<x xmlns='jabber:x:event'>
<id/>
<composing/>
</x>
</message>'
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*** Read: 161 chars
LM-PARSER: ATTRIBUTE: xmlns = jabber:client
LM-PARSER: ATTRIBUTE: to = sam at robots.org.uk/home
LM-PARSER: ATTRIBUTE: from = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at jabber.org/Home
LM-PARSER: ATTRIBUTE: xmlns = jabber:x:event
LM-PARSER: Trying to close node: id
LM-PARSER: Trying to close node: composing
LM-PARSER: Trying to close node: x
LM-PARSER: Trying to close node: message
LM-PARSER: Have a new message
*** New message with type="message" from: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at jabber.org/Home

I guess this is a 'user is typing' notification that Gossip is
mis-recognising as a message from that user.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gossip depends on:
ii  gconf2                   2.10.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libaspell15              0.60.3-5        GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4              2.10.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.8.0-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.10-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libloudmouth1-0          1.0.1-1         Lightweight C Jabber library
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                  2.6.21-1        GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1               1.1.14-1        XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

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