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Re: Kopete upgrade loses OTR?

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Sune Vuorela

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Jun 14, 2013, 9:00:02 AM6/14/13
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On 2013-06-14, Brad Alexander <sto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yet, there is no otr in the plugins list, nor, I notice, is there an
> openpgp plugin. Have these protocols been deprecated, or is there some step
> or package that I am missing?

The new version of the OTR library does unfortunately not work with
kopete.

/Sune


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Brad Alexander

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Jun 14, 2013, 9:00:02 AM6/14/13
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I just upgraded both my laptop and my desktop this week, and kopete was upgraded from 4:4.8.4-1+b1 to 4:4.8.4-2:

ii  kopete                                4:4.8.4-2                         amd64        instant messaging and chat application
ii  libkopete4                            4:4.8.4-2                         amd64        main Kopete library

In 4.8.4-1+b1, off the record messaging worked. With 4.8.4-2, it is missing. And the otr packages installed on both machines are

ii  libotr2                               3.2.1-1                           amd64        Off-the-Record Messaging library
ii  libotr5                               4.0.0-2.2                         amd64        Off-the-Record Messaging library

yet, there is no otr in the plugins list, nor, I notice, is there an openpgp plugin. Have these protocols been deprecated, or is there some step or package that I am missing?

Thanks,
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Benjamin Eikel

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Jun 14, 2013, 9:10:02 AM6/14/13
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Changelog says:
* Stop building with OTR support, since the kopete plugin does not support
libotr >= 4.x: (Closes: #711073)
- drop the libotr2-dev build dependency
- remove the kopete_otr files from kopete.install

http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/k/kdenetwork/kdenetwork_4.8.4-2_changelog

So, it seems like OTR support is gone. Maybe changing to Telepathy is an option for you?


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Pino Toscano

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Jun 14, 2013, 9:20:01 AM6/14/13
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Hi,
As also written in changelog[1], the OTR plugin of kopete does not
compile with libotr 4.x (and the old libotr is planned to away soon),
and even upstream there are no fixes for that.
Considering the API changed a lot, porting it was not an option since it
required an amount of work.

I'm not sure what you refer wrt an "opnepgp plugin".

[1] /usr/share/doc/kopete/changelog.Debian.gz

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Martin Albrecht

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Jun 14, 2013, 12:30:02 PM6/14/13
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> Maybe changing to Telepathy is an option for you?

As far as I can tell it's not:

http://community.kde.org/KTp/RepeatedDiscussions/OTR

TL;DR: they don't consider OTR worthwhile because "trust your service
provider".

Anyway, looks like KDE is without an OTR enabled chat client now.

Cheers,
Martin

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