Hey, we as Debian maintainer team do not see kopete not more suitable to ship to users, as it does seem dead from KDE side and additionally jingle stuff seems even more dead than the rest of kopete [1]. I also heard that Ubuntu is not happy about the current state of kopete and wished, that they not shipping it. This will end with, that the next Debian stable won't ship kopete anymore. I would highly suggest to drop kopete from release service as long as nobody steps up to care about it. I'm requesting this with a big sigh as a long happy users of kopete. Many thanks for the work people put into kopete but sometimes it is time to say goodbye :( But maybe this mail will motivate people to re-accelerate the momentum.
The big blockers we see are: kopete: segfaults when is using libjingle-call https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948987 kopete: FTBFS: error: template with C linkage https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979388 [kopete] crash if I try to join a groupchannel https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941117 Additionally we have some patches on top to at least keep it building, that surely should been added inside KDE. I can create MRs if someone steps up maintaining it: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/kopete/-/tree/master/debian/patches Regards, Sandro [1] https://invent.kde.org/network/kopete/-/compare/v18.12.0...v20.12.1
