Bug 118166

Summary:	Patch for net-im/bitlbee to disable channel output for msn display pictures
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Kear <thomas.kear>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jason Wever (RETIRED) <weeve>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dietrich.moerman, tom
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	bitlbee-nomsnspam.patch

Description Thomas Kear 2006-01-07 05:14:54 UTC

When using bitlbee and msn messenger accounts, a lot of rubbish is printed to the &bitlbee channel in this form

<@root> MSN - Saving removed@hotmail.com's buddy image to: /tmp/removed.cbb2d3f17cabd38d16a09394e21284a9.png
<@root> MSN - File /tmp/removed.cbb2d3f17cabd38d16a09394e21284a9.png received successfully!
<@root> MSN - removed@hotmail.com downloaded my buddy image!
<@root> MSN - My buddy image successfully sent to removed@hotmail.com

and a lot of lines repeating
<@root> MSN - Not downloading buddy image from removed@hotmail.com because we already have it cached!


This patch is a simple comment-out of the lines in the source that cause these messages.  Maybe it could be added as a USE flag for users wanting a bit of piece and quiet

Comment 1 Thomas Kear 2006-01-07 05:15:23 UTC

Created attachment 76442 [details, diff]
bitlbee-nomsnspam.patch

Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-15 15:46:36 UTC

Have you tried sending this upstream yet?  I'd rather not include patches that aren't available from the bitlbee.org website

Comment 3 Angel Olivera 2006-08-30 16:29:02 UTC

They will say -and I agree- that it is ridiculous. Bitlbee is all about freedom. You can use your IRC client's ignore function if you don't want to see those messages.

Cheers.

Comment 4 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-30 19:46:40 UTC

Please speak to upstream about this patch.  Unless a patch can be fetched via bitlbee.org, I don't plan on including them in the ebuild.