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[Jonatan Schroeder <jonatanschroeder@xxxxxxxxx>]

I will need to test it, I haven't used Empathy for a while. It will take
me a couple of days or close to that.

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Title:
  linked contacts are unlinked when automatic linking is used

Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There is an issue I found with what seems to be the automatic linking of similar contacts. In my Empathy I have four active accounts, which I will call:
  MSN A
  MSN B
  GTalk C
  Facebook D

  I have one contact that is available in all four accounts (its my wife
  :-D). Because she has the same email on both A and B, Empathy
  automatically links her on accounts A and B. I then link my wife's
  other accounts (on accounts C and D) to this metacontact. However I
  noticed that every once in a while (apparently when network
  connectivity is lost, or I restart the computer, or some other related
  event) the metacontact is lost and only the contacts on A and B are
  linked. Contacts on C and D are now separate. I noticed the same
  behaviour with other contacts, but it only happens for contacts that
  exist with the same ID in more than one account with the same
  protocol. In another computer I have the same behaviour happening with
  contacts that autolink on both GTalk and MSN, and in this situation
  the autolinks are kept, but other linking is lost. Contacts that are
  linked and don't have an equivalent in more than one account of the
  same protocol are not affected by this problem.

  I'm using Empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 on Ubuntu 11.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jul 27 11:41:25 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: empathy
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (88 days ago)

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