[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#863681: hexchat-otr: confusing and noisy messages

[Holger Levsen]

package: hexchat-otr
x-debbugs-cc: 863660 at bugs.debian.org

Hi,

in #863660 Mattia asked the hexchat package to be changed (at the end of the
stretch freeze) to not recommend hexchat-otr anymore, because of this:

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Upstream contact me about sevaral (apparently too many) users having
> issues with an hexchat external plugin being too noisy [1] and causing
> other issues for unexperienced users.

… and if this behaviour of hexchat-otr is *so* annoying, there should be a bug
about this, thus filing one here. 
 
> All considered probably such barely maintained plugin shouldn't be
> instaled by default indeed, therefore I'm asking for permission to
> upload the following debdiff and having it in stretch.
> 
> [1] "OTR: Error saving instance tags: No such file or directory
> (gcrypt)" for every query started if not configured

disclaimer: I'm not a hexchat user, I just care about OTR.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 811 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-privacy-maintainers/attachments/20170529/52723369/attachment.sig>