KTp/Packaging Guide

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Packaging KDE-Telepathy is complicated for two reasons:

  1. Due to the modular nature of Telepathy, there are several distinct components, each in separate Git repositories.
  2. There are large numbers of runtime inter-dependencies to worry about.

This page attempts to ease packaging KDE-Telepathy in a useful way by explaining these issues.

Upstream packages

Several upstream packages are essential for KDE-Telepathy to work. These are the ones encountered as dependencies in a normal compilation:

The IM networks that KDE-Telepathy can connect to are determined by which Telepathy Connection Managers are installed. These are runtime-only dependencies, but which ones are installed will decide what IM networks KDE-Telepathy supports. The following are the ones we recommend—whether they are installed optionally or required is, of course, up to you.

  • telepathy-gabble >= 0.13.7 (currently 0.18.4), for Jabber/XMPP support, including Google Talk and Facebook, might very probably crash with earlier versions
  • telepathy-haze for all the other protocols, as supported by libpurple
  • telepathy-farstream should be compiled before telepathy-qt for compilation of ktp-call-ui to proceed

KDE-Telepathy packages

The different components of KDE-Telepathy are housed in separate Git repositories on KDE Invent's Network group. Some of these components are currently recommended to use, while others are not yet ready to be installed by users.

Ready components

These components have reached a level of maturity where they are interesting to users. We recommend providing these components at the current time.

Name Description Dependencies
ktp-common-internals Internal library telepathy-qt
ktp-accounts-kcm Account management KCM ktp-common-internals
ktp-approver KDED module that shows a notification when somebody starts a chat with you ktp-common-internals
ktp-text-ui Text chat application ktp-common-internals
ktp-contact-list Contact list application – also provides icons and other data files that are shared among the other applications ktp-common-internals
ktp-kded-module Workspace integration module – provides several plugins like auto-away, the infamous 'Now listening to...' and also an error handler (important!!) ktp-common-internals
ktp-desktop-applets Plasma widgets – provides a presence applet which acts as the central system tray icon of traditional IM clients, a simplified contact list, an applet which represents a single contact and can be used to trigger actions like 'Send mail' and 'Initiate conversation', … ktp-common-internals
ktp-filetransfer-handler Background application for handling file transfers ktp-common-internals
ktp-auth-handler Background application for handling passwords and SSL/TLS certificates ktp-common-internals
ktp-send-file Dolphin/Konqueror context menu plugin for easily sending files to contacts ktp-common-internals
ktp-filetransfer-handler (at runtime)
ktp-call-ui Voice and video chat with contacts ktp-common-internals
ktp-contact-runner Show contacts in KRunner ktp-common-internals
telepathy-logger-qt Provides support for loading saved message logs ktp-common-internals
telepathy-logger
QtGLib (from QtGStreamer)

Experimental components

Several other components are under development, however unless they are listed above, we do not recommend packaging them yet. This is because they are subject to major changes/removal at any time, and are not ready for end users.

Note about accounts-kcm-plugins

Our 0.1.0 release had an extra package called telepathy-kde-accounts-kcm-plugins. These plugins have now been merged into the main telepathy-kde-accounts-kcm package and are no longer shipped separately.

Release tarballs

The latest release is 0.9.0. Tarballs can be found at the KDE FTP mirrors.

Distributions

Here is a list of known packaging efforts for various distributions. If you are also doing packages for a distribution, please add your information here.

Distro Packager Links
Debian George Kiagiadakis https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/meta-kde-telepathy
Ubuntu Michał Zając Source: https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meta-kde-telepathy

Binaries (stable): https://launchpad.net/~telepathy-kde/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Binaries (latest): https://launchpad.net/~telepathy-kde/+archive/ubuntu/daily-builds

openSUSE The openSUSE Community https://en.opensuse.org/KDE_Telepathy
Arch Linux Andrea Scarpino (ilpianista) https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=telepathy
Gentoo KDE Project https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/kde-apps/plasma-telepathy-meta
FreeBSD Alberto Villa (avilla) https://www.freshports.org/net-im/kde-telepathy/
Fedora Jan Grulich (jgrulich) https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/telepathy-accounts-signon