On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Richard Laager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 09:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Stefan Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-privacy-please". >> >> The upstream website says this requires pidgin itself to be patched, >> has the Debian pidgin package integrated that patch? > > Last I checked, no. > > Here's the comment from the p-p-p upstream README [0]: > Since version 2.3.0, pidgin includes the auth-signals patch, > thus you'll only need to apply the patch for blocked-signals. If > you choose not to apply that patch, pidgin-privacy-please won't > be able to send auto-replies when a message has been blocked. > > While I'm not against the idea of those signals, sending an auto-reply > when a message is blocked seems pretty counter-intuitive to me.
In situations where you block all messages from people who are not on your contact list, an auto-reply telling them to request your authorization first is quite handy. cheers -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." -- Timothy Leary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
