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empathy package

Please remove empathy from Ubuntu

Bug #1983616 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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Bug Description

An app can't link against both libsoup2.4 and libsoup3 simultaneously.
empathy depends on libsoup2.4 but it also depends on several libraries
that will be switching to libsoup3.

There is no longer an upstream for empathy. Empathy was archived more
than a year ago which means bug reports, translation updates, and even
bugfixes are no longer being accepted.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/empathy

I filed https://bugs.debian.org/1016659 to remove empathy from Debian Testing (eventually). It will probably be removed from Debian Unstable later too.

Please remove empathy from Ubuntu. We had an Ubuntu diff so it wouldn't have been semi-automatically removed in Ubuntu and we will be doing the libsoup related transitions before Debian.

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$ reverse-depends src:empathy
Reverse-Recommends
* cinnamon-desktop-environment

This is actually an alternative. The recommends is pidgin | empathy

See original description
Tags: kinetic
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Removing packages from kinetic:
 empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic
  empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic amd64
  empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic arm64
  empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic armhf
  empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic ppc64el
  empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic riscv64
  empathy 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic s390x
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic amd64
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic arm64
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic armhf
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic i386
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic ppc64el
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic riscv64
  empathy-common 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2ubuntu2 in kinetic s390x
Comment: Unused, dead upstream, incompatible with libsoup3, removal also requested in Debian; LP: #1983616
1 package successfully removed.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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