#1123976 gajim: cannot add new account (failed to parse jid)

Package:
gajim
Source:
gajim
Submitter:
Claude Heiland-Allen
Date:
2025-12-25 11:21:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1123976#5
Date:
2025-12-25 11:20:05 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I got a new computer and installed Trixie from netinst usb/iso.
I installed Gajim and tried to add my XMPP account.
It didn't work, terminal reported failed to parse jid or similar,
and user interface did not let me continue
(it had a blocking triangle saying the account name was invalid).

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I removed all the gajim files from ~/.local, ~/.config, ~/.cache,
then ran sudo apt build-dep gajim.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

On restarting gajim after this, I could add my XMPP account without issues.

This makes me think the gajim package is missing an important runtime
dependency related to parsing strings.

Thanks,


Claude