@Omer it is possible I was unclear. Two important points: 1. The problems I described above only relate to running Empathy immediately after its packages have been updated. As I said above, logging out and back in solves all my problems. In particular, I have started using Empathy recently precisely because it now supports Facebook chat, and because import from Pidgin finally seems to work properly.
2. I reported these problems to Ubuntu rather than upstream because they are problems specific to updating the application, and the distro has more ways to mitigate or fix the problem than the upstream authors (e.g. apt could give a warning or automatically restart empathy when it is upgraded). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/688586 Title: Empathy doesn't work well after update; user should be warned -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
