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@js@ap.nil.im  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Just wanted to install an #XMPP client to create an account to test something. I moved away to #Matrix years ago because I had no hope anymore for #XMPP, but now that I wanted to create an account, I am just shocked at how dead it is: #Fedora still has Gajim 1.7.3, when the last release is 2.4.1. #pkgsrc is a bit but noch much better with 2.1.1. #Tkabber is even worse: pkgsrc has 0.11.1, when 1.1.2 is the latest release that was released in 2015(!). It seems distributions keep XMPP clients around, but don't update them because nobody is using them anymore. I had not expected for XMPP to be that dead. That's shocking.

I also think if distributions cannot be bothered to update a package in over 10 years, they should just remove it…

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@raucao@kosmos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@js It's more shocking how dead Fedora is, because as you say yourself, Gajim has had a lot of releases over the years. (That said, 2.0 was only released in 2025, so anything 2.x is fairly recent.)

I think there's less motivation for people to maintain distro packages in their free time, because people can always get the latest version on Flathub anyway.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gajim.Gajim

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