Bug#863681: hexchat-otr: confusing and noisy messages
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:52:37AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Thank you for the heads up. Without this bug report, I would not be aware of > any such problems. But is #863660 the wrong bug number? It is a unblock > request for reportbug. Searching for the quotes you site, I find them in > #863667. yes, I typoed the bugnumber, #863667 is the correct one. > I can have a look at the 'noise', as this is concrete enough to try to solve: thanks for looking into this! -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#863681: hexchat-otr: confusing and noisy messages
[Holger Levsen] > in #863660 Mattia asked the hexchat package to be changed (at the end of the > stretch freeze) to not recommend hexchat-otr anymore, because of this: Thank you for the heads up. Without this bug report, I would not be aware of any such problems. But is #863660 the wrong bug number? It is a unblock request for reportbug. Searching for the quotes you site, I find them in #863667. I can have a look at the 'noise', as this is concrete enough to try to solve: >> [1] "OTR: Error saving instance tags: No such file or directory >> (gcrypt)" for every query started if not configured But the 'other issues for unexperienced users' will need some more details before I have any idea what this is about. Mattia, can you tell some more? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
Bug#863681: hexchat-otr: confusing and noisy messages
package: hexchat-otr x-debbugs-cc: 863...@bugs.debian.org Hi, in #863660 Mattia asked the hexchat package to be changed (at the end of the stretch freeze) to not recommend hexchat-otr anymore, because of this: On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Upstream contact me about sevaral (apparently too many) users having > issues with an hexchat external plugin being too noisy [1] and causing > other issues for unexperienced users. … and if this behaviour of hexchat-otr is *so* annoying, there should be a bug about this, thus filing one here. > All considered probably such barely maintained plugin shouldn't be > instaled by default indeed, therefore I'm asking for permission to > upload the following debdiff and having it in stretch. > > [1] "OTR: Error saving instance tags: No such file or directory > (gcrypt)" for every query started if not configured disclaimer: I'm not a hexchat user, I just care about OTR. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature
