[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#1017049: profanity: No acknowledgement when running “/omemo start” in a chat room; also no docs on this

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Package: profanity
Version: 0.10.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.profanity at sideload.33mail.com

To send encrypted messages to a chat room, the following steps are
necessary:

  1) OMEMO must be switched on for that room (enter “/omemo start” within that room)
  2) the fingerprint of every person in that room must be trusted
  «OR»
  2) enable blind trust (“/help omemo trustmode” in some versions)

When step 1 is performed, there is no response from the app in that
window. There is also no response in window 1. No error message
either. So it appears to the user that their command was ignored. In
my case, the command had proper effect (so egress messages thereafter
were encrypted). But the user should be told something like:

  “OMEMO enabled for outbound messages to this channel.
   To reverse this action, run `\omemo end`”

It would perhaps also be useful when entering a chat room that has
OMEMO disabled to automatically print a banner saying:

  “Warning: messages sent to this room will be unencrypted.
   To enable e2ee run `\omemo start` in this window.”

Also, “/help omemo” does not cover this use case. The page gives the
proper BNF syntax (“/omemo start [<contact>]”), but it fails to
mention that “<contact>” cannot be a /room/, and that the only way to
start a session for a room is to do “/omemo start” in that room.

So there are three bugs here:
  1) lack of command acknowledgement
  2) lack of warning banner in unencrypted rooms
  3) lack of help docs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages profanity depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.31-13+deb11u3
ii  libcurl3-gnutls            7.74.0-1.3+deb11u1
ii  libgcrypt20                1.8.7-6
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.66.8-1
ii  libgpgme11                 1.14.0-1+b2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.24.24-4+deb11u2
ii  libncursesw6               6.2+20201114-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.9-3
ii  libotr5                    4.1.1-4
ii  libpython3.9               3.9.2-1
ii  libreadline8               8.1-1
ii  libsignal-protocol-c2.3.2  2.3.3-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.34.1-3
ii  libstrophe0                0.10.1-1
ii  libtinfo6                  6.2+20201114-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxss1                    1:1.2.3-1

profanity recommends no packages.

profanity suggests no packages.

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