Ubuntu
pidgin package

Ship pidgin-otr by default

Bug #1123446 reported by zerwas
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pidgin (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Parallel to the request [1] to add OTR to the windows release i would like to suggest shipping the OTR plugin by default in Ubuntu.
The reason is because encryption is a basic security feature and OTR is the de-facto standard for instant messaging encryption (imagine you would need to do sudo apt-get install firefox-ssl for SSL support). In Adium, OTR is already being shipped by default.

[1] https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15513#ticket

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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zerwas (zerwas) wrote :

To avoid confusion I should add that this would simply add pidgin-otr to the "Recommends" field of the control file.

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