I'm with Sergey on this, that is a feature we should have. Now, this is
not my expert area, but, doesn't gaim support dynamic protocol/plugins?
would it be possible/plausable to have the boujour/ichat/howl/mdns/avahi
protocol/support as a seperate package? like gaim-ichat or whatever? i'm
not a packaging expert, but, wouldn't this involve adding the howl-
compat build-dep and then splitting the resulting file(s) out into their
own gaim-whatever package, which then could be in
universe/multiverse/wherever, and not on a default install? that package
could depend on whatever non *-dev package it need to run (avahi-howl-
compat or something similar i assume). this way, this old compat layer
isn't in main, and the ichat support isn't so much default (much like
the rhythmbox daap support, which is on, but needs avahi-daemon to be
installed and switched on). this would at least make is possible to have
this functionality, albeit not default, instead of require a complete
rebuild of gaim by users who want this.

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No bonjour support
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61755

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