[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#914738: painintheapt: Please append subject to XMPP message

[Gerald Turner]

Package: painintheapt
Version: 0.20181120-1~bpo9+1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Since version 0.20180212, in commit¹ 1660b436 which added XMPP pubsub
support, among other things, changed the format of the message sent
directly to XMPP recipients and MUC's.

The older version used to send messages prepended with a string like:

  "1 package update(s) for hostname\n\n"

However newer versions split this information into a separate 'subject'
field, which my XMPP client (Pidgin usually) ignores.  It's also absent
from MUC group messages entirely.

The effect is that I'm no longer able to discern what hosts have which
updates.

¹ https://salsa.debian.org/xmpp-team/painintheapt/commit/1660b436be5faa02184ad398b406e917a4a416a8#9b7fd75f021b7dcd0fdc40caf24c403142d2195e_139_176

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (601, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages painintheapt depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.48
ii  python3              3.5.3-1
ii  python3-apt          1.4.0~beta3
ii  python3-prettytable  0.7.2-3
ii  python3-sleekxmpp    1.3.1-6.1

painintheapt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages painintheapt suggests:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]  3.0pl1-128+deb9u1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/painintheapt.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/painintheapt.conf'

-- no debconf information

-- 
Gerald Turner <gturner at unzane.com>        Encrypted mail preferred!
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