[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#646335: empathy apparently does not support QQ....

[Clayton]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:39:13 +0200
Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> wrote:

> Well actually empathy support QQ through telepathy-haze.
> Empathy is suggesting telepathy-haze already, maybe this could be
> bumped to a Recommends.

Without a little documentation / explanation, the connection between
empathy and QQ is a little tenuous, don't you think?

apt-cache search qq

returns empathy, but not pidgin. I would think under the circumstances
either both should, or both should not, advertise QQ support?

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13193 says
"We have decided to discontinue support of the QQ protocol in libpurple
and Pidgin as of version 2.8.0."

I have in fact recently found this unofficial Pidgin QQ plugin 
https://code.google.com/p/libqq-pidgin/
that works on Debian testing right out of the Ubuntu PPA and I am using
it right now.

It would be nice if this found it's way into the Debian archive and
into the hands of more people, there are hundreds of millions (no
exaggeration) of QQ users in China, and these days significant numbers
of them are Ubuntu (and thus Debian) users.

As it stands the plugin is very hard to find and get installed.

FYI,
Clayton