[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Packaging purple-lurch?

[Jonas Meurer]

Hello,

Am 26.10.18 um 10:15 schrieb intrigeri:
> u:
>> I wondered.. is anybody interested in packaging purple-lurch which gives
>> Pidgin OMEMO support? See:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905883
> 
> FWIW, personally I'm not: I'm headed towards migrating away from
> Pidgin for this sort of things more than towards adding new Pidgin
> stuff to the archive.

I have a different (probably more pragmatic) view on this. Pidgin is
old, crappy and probably poorly maintained code. So in theory I agree
with you: I would love to advice people to switch to a more modern and
clean XMPP client. But unfortunately, to my knowledge, no other
(graphical) XMPP client exists, that allows to use both OTR and OMEMO at
the same time. If anybody can recommend such a graphical XMPP client
with support for both, I'd be happy to learn about it :)

Since there's still a lot of usability issues with OMEMO, switching
entirely to OMEMO for e2e encryption is not an option either.

That's why I consider it important to keep support for Pidgin for now.
Adding OMEMO support to it in Debian would be a benefit in my eyes and
help people who actually rely on e2e encrypted XMPP communication.

Unfortunately I don't have much capacities. But I'll see whether I find
some time do help with the packaging. If anybody else would be
interested in taking the lead - even better. Count me in as
co-maintainer at least.

Cheers
 jonas

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