In GTALK, setting a user to never show up removes them completely from bitlebee

[armando@…]

In the gtalk interface in gmail, you can only show a small percentage of your contacts and so i usually set a few of them to never show up but it doesnt mean remove them, it just means when i need to talk to them, I have to find them in the contact list myself. However, i noticed that in bitlbee, the user is completely removed. and trying to talk to them results in a no nick in this channel.

09:58 -!- randomuser: No such nick/channel

some xmlconsole output.

adding a user to "auto" show up

10:01 <xmlconsole> RX: <iq to="me@randomdomain/BitlBeeFDE957C3" id="3D83D624" type="set"><query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster"><item jid="randomuser@randomdomain.com" subscription="both"/></query></iq>

making a user "never" show up

10:01 <xmlconsole> RX: <iq to="me@randomdomain/BitlBeeFDE957C3" id="3D83D721" type="set"><query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster"><item jid="randomuser@randomdomain.com" subscription="remove"/></query></iq>

[wilmer]

Changing component. Keeping this bug for after the 1.2 release, probably.

[dx]

Huh, this still applies. It's the server literally telling us to remove the contact from the roster, though. I'd say we're doing the right thing here and it's not a bug.

(edited description to add code blocks)

[dx]

Replying to dx:

Huh, this still applies. It's the server literally telling us to remove the contact from the roster, though. I'd say we're doing the right thing here and it's not a bug.

Closing for that reason.