Need Version Update for Lucid

[varanasi]

Binary package hint: empathy

The current lucid version of empathy, listed by ubuntu as 2.30.0, automatically and without warning logs all chats. There is not option to disable the logging. This is a significant privacy and security problem.

I believe that in the current maverick version of empathy there is an option to disable logging. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy The version of empathy apparently included in gnome release 2.32 included the disable logging option. I am afraid I cannot tell which empathy version introduced the disable logging option.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 21 06:16:56 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report but if you want to use GNOME 2.32 you should upgrade to maverick, stable version only get selected bugfix updates

[varanasi (mark-hugheshome)]

Thanks Sebastien, but I don't particularly want to use Gnome 2.32. I would simply like a version of empathy without the huge privacy/security hole in it. Auto-logging every chat, combined with the fact that the logs are in a hidden folder, seems like a bug to me. It probably seemed like a bug to the empathy folks, too, since they fixed it.

I don't wish to argue, but not fixing a serious privacy/security hole in an LTS version, when a fix is released and available, doesn't seem in the spirit of LTS releases.

[varanasi (mark-hugheshome)]

Ubuntu just pushed 2.30.3 as an upgrade. Why can't we get the Maverick version? The one without a privacy/security hole? Lucid is supposed to be an LTS release. I don't think the idea is to force users of an LTS release to use defective software longer than everyone else.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

is the bug still present.?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for empathy (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]