Empathy does not show all contacts in google talk account

[Craig Estep]

Binary package hint: telepathy-gabble

When starting empathy I noticed that some of my GTalk contacts were not showing up there (but were in pidgin). Most of them are there, but a few aren't. The log in empathy has a line like this for the ones that are not there:

_gabble_roster_item_update: Google roster: discarding odd contact [name removed]

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 11 18:16:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: telepathy-gabble 0.7.30-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-2.17-generic
SourcePackage: telepathy-gabble
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-2-generic i686

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Could you attach full log with LM_DEBUG=net and GABBLE_DEBUG=all please? If you don't for privacy reason, feel free to send them to me by mail: <email address hidden>

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

I've fixed a bunch of roster bugs. From NEWS in my 'i-hate-rosters' branch:

* Gabble no longer erroneously hides Google Talk contacts who which were
  automatically added to your roster, and contacts who Google incorrectly
  thinks are aliases for another JID).

* Removing a contact from 'subscribe' while they're in remote-pending ("Oops! I
  didn't mean to subscribe to Randall's presence!") now works. This is on top
  of the fix for fd.o #21547 in 0.7.28, which made removing the
  contact from 'stored' work. Previously, while the subscription request was
  correctly rescinded, Gabble didn't expose it correctly on the 'subscribe'
  channel.

* Contacts no longer "flicker" to and from subscribe:remote-pending when you
  subscribe to them on a Google Talk account. This was a regression in 0.7.28,
  caused by fixing fd.o #21547.

[Guillaume-desmottes (guillaume-desmottes)]

The branch looks fine according my (very limited) understanding of the Google roster and all its mysteries.

2 typo in the NEWS:

"who which" ?

for another JID).
You are closing a not opened parenthesis.

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 2 typo in the NEWS:

I've updated the branch accordingly.

Think this is okay to go? The Google roster is not all that mysterious, and I've tried to add enough information in comments that people in the future touching this stuff won't have to re-reverse-engineer the bugs being worked around. :)

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

Merged, will be in 0.7.31. Thanks for the review!

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Bug has been forwared upstream: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22858

Will review the branch fixing it now.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Bug has been fixed in master and will be fixed in the next release.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Should be fixed in telepathy-gabble 0.7.31 which is now in Karmic and in the Telepathy PPA.
Let us know if you still have the problem with this version.

[Daniel T. (pterion)]

The problem still occurs with version 0.8.12-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS.

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

We (Telepathy upstream) do not support Gabble 0.8.x any more. So, does the bug occur with a more modern version of Gabble? If so, please attach debug logs from Gabble as per <http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Debugging>, and describe which aspect of “the problem” you are referring to.

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