Rawhide Warning: Empathy/Haze & MC Profiles Update: Slight Manual Fixing Required

Aug 13, 2008 20:47

Posted this to the development mailing list; but the more I post it the more people will see it... :)

Hi, all.

The Mission Control profiles in the telepathy-haze-mission-control package were originally created manually based on the Jabber/XMPP profile to allow Telepathy-using applications to support the basics of libpurple's more common protocols: AIM/ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! IM.

However, these are getting rather stale and upstream Empathy already has nicely-working profiles for Haze (with more protocol support than the old subpackage). So, in an effort to more closely track upstream's code and profiles (therefore slightly reducing the package maintenance work), I have committed and am now building new telepathy-haze and empathy
packages that use Empathy's profiles instead of manually-created ones.

These should hit tomorrow's rawhide but unfortunately it means that the profiles have been renamed. I have included a script named "upgrade-haze-profiles.sh" (installed as documentation) with Empathy that automagically fixes this on a per-user basis; but this script needs to be run manually.

(Come to think of it, we may need to add this as a minor upgrade-related fix in the Release Notes...)

Thanks, and happy hacking.

tech, telepathy, advocacy, rawhide, haze, empathy, fedora, linux

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