"You are now identified for <username>" message doesn't make sense

[Chris Wilson]

Binary package hint: empathy

When the user logs into IRC using Empathy, the message "You are now identified for <username>" is presented to the user. This does not make sense, and it should read "You are now identified as <username>".

[Vish (vish)]

Hmm, We dont install xchat-gnome by default nor do I see it listed in the Software Center "Featured Apps"..
Am I missing something here, any reason this was included as a papercut?

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I've probably just marked the wrong application in that case, but whatever application it is that is responsible for signing the user into IRC, or for notifying the user that this has happened, is where the problem lies. I had first thought that it was Empathy itself that was the problem until I came across another bug that referenced this behaviour.

[Vish (vish)]

telepathy-idle is the package which handles IRC for empathy. [Xchat is a totally different app for IRC.]

[Aaron Peachey (aaronp)]

Note, this is the text of the private message that Nickserv sends to you after you've identified with your nick, even if you do so in any IRC app by manually messaging Nickserv (/msg nickserv identify password).
I believe the app is just passing NickServ's message through to the user, in which case NickServ's response message would need to be changed or telepathy-idle would have to catch the message, and replace the 'for' with 'as' before displaying it to the user.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Since this is a problem with the message NickServ send directly to the user, I am removing the task for telepathy-idle. Fixing this problem in code would be far more difficult than simply changing the text of the message NickServ send at the source, so I am attempting to track down the maintainer of the NickServ source code.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Unassigning myself. I don't have time to work on this.

[Vish (vish)]

Chris, the telepathy-idle (Ubuntu) task has been closed and there is no nickserv package, where is this bug in ?

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

The bug isn't in an Ubuntu package, rather it is the result of a badly constructed message sent from the Freenode nickserv.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm not sure how the IRC bots are developed and maintained, if it's only a problem with Freenode's particular implementation, or if this would be a problem on any IRC network.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Yes, this is a Freenode bot response. Nothing we can do with it. Sorry.

[Vish (vish)]

Closing task as per comment #11