Package: libpurple0 Version: 2.12.0-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Linking to libfarstream means pulling in gstreamer-plugins-bad, which in addition to having literally hundreds of megabytes of dependencies, describes itself as "plugins which aren't up to par", for example they may be unreviewed or rarely used code. Getting those dependencies should require a more conscious intent than a side effect of installing a program like pidgin which, though it can theoretically be used for video chat, is far more commonly used for text chat. In my experience the video chat features have never worked very well, but if there are really people who use it perhaps that can be separated into a different package so people who just want to IM don't have to increase the attack surface of anything that uses gstreamer.
Mike Stone
