[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#523648: empathy: "New message from ..." notifications need to HTML-escape message text

[Zack Weinberg]

Package: empathy
Version: 2.26.0-1
Severity: normal

empathy generates a desktop notification when someone sends me an
instant message and I don't already have a chat window open for them.
That's good.  But the desktop notification mechanism honors some
subset of HTML tags, e.g.  if the message sent was "<i>Hello!</i>"
then the notification shows "Hello!"  in italics.  It eats tags it
doesn't recognize or that are ill-formed; my SO is in the habit of
instant-messaging me "<3" which shows up as a blank notification.

empathy should be HTML-escaping messages before passing them
to libnotify.  [ I looked at the libnotify documentation
and it doesn't mention this at all, but I am guessing
that pango_parse_markup() is being called at some point, see
http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html --
unfortunately this does not say precisely how to escape arbitrary text.
Empirically, though, &lt; &gt; and &amp; work as in HTML.]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages empathy depends on:
ii  dbus-x11               1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.24.0-2          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.1-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                  2.9-7             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0       0.4-1             Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0           0.4-1             a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9          2.24.5-4+b1       Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2-11   2.24.5-4+b1       Utility library for evolution data
ii  libempathy-gtk19       2.26.0-1          High-level library and user-interf
ii  libempathy23           2.26.0-1          High-level library and user-interf
ii  libenchant1c2a         1.4.2-3.3         a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.24.0-7          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.0-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.24.1-2          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.22-5         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.22-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.14.7-5          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libmissioncontrol-clie 4.67-2            Library to interact with Telepathy
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.5-1           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.24.3-2          an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libtelepathy-farsight0 0.0.6-1           Glue library between telepathy and
ii  libtelepathy-glib0     0.7.29-1          Telepathy framework - GLib library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages empathy recommends:
ii  gvfs-backends                 1.0.3-3    userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  telepathy-gabble              0.7.26-1   Jabber/XMPP connection manager
ii  telepathy-salut               0.3.9-1    Link-local XMPP connection manager

empathy suggests no packages.

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