Bug#983365: linphone-desktop: chat messages

[David Pirotte]

Hello Bernhard,

> Thanks for your report. Unfortunately I'm extremely swamped for the
> next couple of weeks. I have also never used the Chat feature. For
> this reason I'm tagging this bug as "help".

I hope you or someone else find the time to fix this bug before it's to
late to make it to stable bullseye, but as it is, afaic, it is unusable
for one of its main functionality: to send and receive messages - i use
it (the upstream version, the debian version is unusable) professionally
daily ...

So, I don't use it, I can't use it, I can't risk to loose msgs, and
this debian version looses all messages, those you send are not
registered in the db, and those we receive are not even displayed in
the current session panel, only as a notification popup, which last a
few second: if you are not in front of the machine, you don't even
know someone is contacting you, and if you are, but the message is
long, no way you can 'remember the exact msg words' once the
notification disappear from the screen ...

	I used it to try and report the bug(s), but immediately
	switched to upstream appimage 4.2.5, which at least works fine
	for chat messages

> Two short questions:
> In Bug#983369 a few minutes later you wrote the date in the history is
> wrong, although in this bug it reads like you cannot display the
> history at all. Which one is correct?

	before i answer these two quiz, please allow me to suggest
	that you create a linphone account, and try, ask a relative
	or another debian maintainer to create an account and try
	chat msgs exchange, calls ... it seems to me you did not even
	try the app (no pun, just reading you gave me this impression)

All bugs report are correct - it seems to me that you are not a
linphone user :) - which is fine if true, no problem. So, the most
important panel (in size and function), the middle right 'panel' in
linphone, is used to show in/out messages, but also to report
in/out calls, wether successful or not ...

It always mentions a wrong date, always the day before the event
occurs, no matter what the event is, in/out msgs or in/out call,
successful or not ... again, it seems you did not even tried linphone
(nor debian, not upstream image), not even once ... :)

	this bug, as reported, is an upstream bug 'as well', not a
	debian bug ...

> Did you start a fresh linphone profile or is the sqlite database
> upgraded from an older version? Could you (for a test) move it away to
> have it recreated?

No, i can't do that, the linphone.db file is essential to linphone, and
properly used by linphone (apppimage) upstream - i don't think this
will solve anything (sorry)
]
> I fully understand choosing an RC severity, but I'm at a loss
> debugging this and I lack the time to dig into it, so this bug might
> make linphone-desktop miss the Bullseye release unless someone steps
> up to debug this.

I hope you or someone else solve this bug, the app is, as it is in
debian bullseye, unusable, it is actually 'risky' to use it, imho ...

David
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