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FS#40650 - [kdenetwork-kopete] libmsn not needed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Johannes Löthberg (demize) - Tuesday, 03 June 2014, 06:30 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 19:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

libmsn is only needed for MSN support, and seeing as MSN is no longer up the dependency should be removed.
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 19:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 03 June 2014, 07:34 GMT
Hi, please let me understand this better: you cannot login anymore in Kopete using MSN?
Comment by Johannes Löthberg (demize) - Tuesday, 03 June 2014, 07:35 GMT
You cannot login to MSN anymore at all, since Microsoft closed the service a year ago when they bough Skype.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 03 June 2014, 07:39 GMT
Yes, but the services where still running. However I just heard they closed latest in January.
Comment by Markus Kotilainen (alanmies) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 15:43 GMT
The services are still running - yes it was announced some time ago that MSN would be retired, but as it still works, there's really no need to remove libmsn.
Comment by Johannes Löthberg (demize) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 15:48 GMT
Do they? Hmm, I know several people who used it and said they no longer could log in, but then I was lied to I guess
Comment by Markus Kotilainen (alanmies) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 15:51 GMT
There have been occasional times when I've been unable to login, and at times it seems some messages don't get through, but as of today, some three hours ago, I was logged in and chatting with a friend. Not anymore as I updated Kopete though.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 16:45 GMT
Since MSN is deprecated I would leave it disabled.

Sven this is up to you, consider if re-enabling it or not in KDE 4.13.2. I did drop libmsn from the repos, so you should bring it again.
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 19:50 GMT
Nah, I will not re-add MSN, it's dying at best or even already dead.
Comment by Markus Kotilainen (alanmies) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 19:55 GMT
Fair enough I suppose - there was only a single person I talked (or rather, chatted, anyway) to on MSN. And ever since the news about the Skype integration/migration broke out it was evident this'll come to an end at some point. I guess I'll have to get him to use an alternative.

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