Can't change alias of Yahoo! contacts in empathy

[LSL]

Binary package hint: telepathy-haze

When I right click on a Yahoo! contact and change the alias it will change the name, but will revert back to the original contact name once empathy is shut down, and opened again. All the other messenger protocols remember the user modified alias names except for Yahoo!, so that's why I reported it on telepathy-haze. Everything is up to date on a fresh maverick install as of this post.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: telepathy-haze 0.4.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 30 16:18:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: telepathy-haze

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 473662, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Eric TF Bat (bat-flurf)]

Please read more carefully before declaring something a duplicate. This bug refers to the aliases of *contacts*, not of accounts. In other words, if Fred Flintstone, whose Yahoo account name is yabbadabba, has two contacts named Barney Rubble and Mr Slate, then according to bug #404022 he will be unable to change his alias from the displayed default "yabbadabba", but according to this *different* bug he ALSO can't change his friends aliases from their displayed defaults "barney42" and "bossmanslate". So, as you see, two different bugs - though undoubtedly related.

[Nev Delap (nevdelap)]

I agree with eric that this bug is not a duplicate. Also I believe this is a regression. I used to use Empathy, had no issue, was on Pidgin for a while, and have come back to Empathy, and now have the issue described.

[LSL (spesialstyrker)]

I'm running the latest empathy on Arch linux, and have the same problem there.