Public bug reported:
There is an issue I found with what seems to be the automatic linking of
similar contacts. In my Empathy I have four active accounts, which I will call:
MSN A
MSN B
GTalk C
Facebook D
I have one contact that is available in all four accounts (its my wife
:-D). Because she has the same email on both A and B, Empathy
automatically links her on accounts A and B. I then link my wife's other
accounts (on accounts C and D) to this metacontact. However I noticed
that every once in a while (apparently when network connectivity is
lost, or I restart the computer, or some other related event) the
metacontact is lost and only the contacts on A and B are linked.
Contacts on C and D are now separate. I noticed the same behaviour with
other contacts, but it only happens for contacts that exist with the
same ID in more than one account with the same protocol. In another
computer I have the same behaviour happening with contacts that autolink
on both GTalk and MSN, and in this situation the autolinks are kept, but
other linking is lost. Contacts that are linked and don't have an
equivalent in more than one account of the same protocol are not
affected by this problem.
I'm using Empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 on Ubuntu 11.04.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 27 11:41:25 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (88 days ago)
** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug apport-lpi i386 natty running-unity
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linked contacts are unlinked when automatic linking is used
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