Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Wiederhake <benwiederhake.git...@gmx.de>
* Package name : telegram-purple Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Matthias Jentsch <mtthsjnt...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Adds support for Telegram to libpurple This provides a libpurple plugin that allows e.g. pidgin to use Telegram (telegram.org) as a backend. This package is relevant, because currently users would have to choose between: - Not using Telegram at all - Using the official Telegram client (which is considered annoying, because users want to keep ONE im client with ALL accounts) - Downloading, compiling, installing directly from source (which is annoying because that's what the debian repo is for) I personally use it, and several friends of mine. I participated in making it ready for Debian (e.g. cleared a GPL-violation, cleaned up the build system). I will continue to use and maintain this package, because I rely on being able to be reachable via Telegram via Pidgin. There are other packages (all in RFP state) that provide similar functionality: - "tg", which is called upstream "telegram-cli", is a CLI for communicating with telegram. This serves the need of those who EXCLUSIVELY use telegram. I don't fall into this group. - "telegram", which is a RFP of the official client. Same problem: This serves the need of those who EXCLUSIVELY use telegram. I don't fall into this group. - Note that this is a resurrection of #800771, as it timed out. You might notice that tg (telegram-cli) and telegram-purple both use the same basic library: libtgl ( https://github.com/vysheng/tgl ) It is not meaningful to ship that package separately as a "shared library" (e.g. "libtgl.so"). The rationale for this and other packaging choices can be found in `debian/README.source`. Just to reassure: upstream of telegram-purple (= Matthias Jentsch) is very willing to see telegram-purple accepted in Debian. Proposed maintainers: - Ben Wiederhake (absolutely no experience in maintaining a Debian package) If you intend to check out the source on GitHub, please notice that this project makes use of git submodules *within* git submodules, and thus you need to do "git clone --recursive https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple" The current efforts of "Debianization" can be found at this branch: https://github.com/BenWiederhake/telegram-purple/tree/debian-develop/ You might notice that 1.3.0 isn't released yet -- that's because it truely isn't. However, it's stable, and they/we are about to release, and I think there's nothing essential missing in `debian/`, so I might be able to RFS within a day after release of 1.3.0. Regards, Ben