Here are the answers to your questions. > silc-toolkit is not needed by pidgin
SILC support is advertised by the Pidgin program. The SILC libraries are required to provide this support. Furthermore Ubuntu has no graphical SILC client without Pidgin providing it. > it's explicitely disabled in the configury. did this change? To the best of my knowledge it has never been disabled. Every instance of pidgin/gaim released in Ubuntu will support SILC if the package is built with libsilc-dev installed on the system. Therefore the package clearly conditionally enables support based on the presence of the library. > is debian report #273871 still valid? No, that bug was closed 2 years ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273871 > if finch is accepted it introduces duplication into main, e.g. irssi, does > have the same functionality. which other packages are candidates for demotion into universe? Ok, where to begin with this one... 1. This is not a request for the inclusion of finch in main. This is a request for silc-toolkit which provides libsilc, libsilc-dbg, and libsilc-dev. 2. The finch binary package is part of the pidgin source package and therefore already in main. 3. Whether finch and irssi conflict in functionality has no bearing on this request. 4. Even if finch and irssi do conflict because they both provide a terminal based chat/im/irc interface, this request ensures the inclusion of a functionality that is not present in main: a graphical SILC client. > why is pidgin included in this report, it's already in main? Pidgin is included as it is affected by this bug report. That is my understanding of why to add other projects via the "also affects" links. The inclusion of this package in main will mean that the pidgin package maintainers can add it as a build-dep to gain the functionality they have advertised but not yet provided. -- Request for silc-toolkit Inclusion in Main https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211179 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
