[PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#461136: ITP: conspire -- An advanced, lightweight IRC client for UNIX.

[Darren Blaber]

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian IRC Team <pkg-irc-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>


* Package name : conspire
Version : 0.11.0
Upstream Author : William Pitcock <nenolod at sacredspiral.co.uk>,
Kiyoshi Aman <kiyoshi.aman at gmail.com>
* URL : http://nenolod.net/conspire
* License : GPL
Description : Conspire is an advanced, lightweight IRC client for
UNIX. It includes a GTK interface, and a "bot" interface which has no
UI. Interface segregation is accomplished through libconspire, which
contains the common code. Conspire started as a fork of XChat 2.9 CVS.

Besides allowing for many different UIs to be implemented on top of
the conspire engine, Conspire includes other notable features such as
being extended only through DBus. Since Conspire is extended only
through DBus, it is less susceptible to various attacks from hostile
users.

Conspire features limited compatibility with XChat plugins via the
conspire-xchatwrap program. Additionally, conspire can use XChat
scripts via the conspire-python program. Both of these programs run in
a seperate memory address space than conspire, and as such hostile
plugins and scripts cannot gain access to any data which is not
presented through the proper XChat APIs. The fact that the extensions
run in a seperate address space also means that poorly written
extensions will not crash the IRC client.

Additionally, third-party programs can extend Conspire if they detect
that it is running. This can allow for example: media players which
provide their own IRC integration options, tighter integration with
web browsers like Epiphany, etcetera.



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