Bug#580965: xchat-gnome: Uses /nickserv not /msg NickServ IDENTIFY

[Michael Howe]

Package: xchat-gnome
Version: 1:0.18-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

This is basically the same as
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407926 (xchat uses
/nickserv rather than /msg nickserv identify).  The work-around
suggested in that bug is to use the 'connect command' field - however,
this field isn't displayed in any of the xchat-gnome property dialogs
(as far as I can tell - apologies if I've just missed it!).  If xchat is
installed, it's possible to set the connect command using _that_, and
then xchat-gnome will use it.  However, since xchat is not required by
xchat-gnome, there's no guarantee users will have this.

Cheers,

Michael

(I haven't tried the sid version of the package as I don't have a
suitable system handy, but the debian changelog doesn't say this has
changed)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xchat-gnome depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.22.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.7-18lenny2     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.8.8-2~bpo50+1  The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.76-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4             2.22.0-1         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.16.6-3         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-2       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.22.0-5       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.4-3          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.20.5-5+lenny1  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libperl5.10             5.10.0-19lenny2  Shared Perl library
ii  libsexy2                0.1.11-2+b1      collection of additional GTK+ widg
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-15+lenny6 SSL shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.5-2        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.0.4-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  python2.5               2.5.2-15+lenny1  An interactive high-level object-o
ii  tcl8.4                  8.4.19-2         Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  xchat-gnome-common      1:0.18-3         a new frontend to the popular X-Ch

xchat-gnome recommends no packages.

xchat-gnome suggests no packages.

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