From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020531 Debian/1.0rc3-2 Description of problem: The version of mICQ distributed with RedHat is horribly outdated (the guy at LinuxTag claimed RedHat wouldn't distribute mICQ at all...) to the extend of not beeing usable because AOL changed the ICQ protocl. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: micq -h Actual Results: ... Version 0.4.6pl1 ... Expected Results: mICQ (Matt's ICQ clone) version 0.4.9 (compiled on Jun 10 2002 22:32:03) in dedication to Matthew D. Smith. This program was made without any help from Mirabilis or their consent. No reverse engineering or decompilation of any Mirabilis code took place to make this program. No internationalization requested. Usage: micq [-v|-V] [-f|-F <rc-file>] [-l|-L <logfile>] [-?|-h] -v Turn on verbose Mode (useful for Debugging only) -f specifies an alternate Config File (default: ~/.micq/micqrc) -l specifies an alternate logfile resp. logdir -? gives this help screen Additional info: ##################################################################### # # # ANNOUNCEMENT: mICQ 0.4.9 # # # ##################################################################### | mICQ is a portable, small, yet powerful console based ICQ client. | | It supports password changing, auto-away, creation of new | | accounts, and other features that makes it a very complete yet | | simple client supporting the current ICQ v8 protocol. | | | | A lot of other ICQ clients are based in spirit on mICQ, | | nevertheless mICQ is still _the_ console based ICQ client. | After weeks of hard work developing mICQ, the new stable version 0.4.9 is finally out. It's functionality has been completely ported to the new v8 protocol, including support for the v8 peer-to-peer protocol. The setup of new accounts has been made easier, among other interface cleanups. The configuration file has been reorganized and now lives in ~/.micq/micqrc. Some v8 specific features were added, including sending SMS. mICQ has been translated to several languages, German, French and Russian beeing the most up to date translations. Character conversion for Russion and Japanese is also included. mICQ recognizes other ICQ clones including licq, StrICQ, Miranda, mICQ and generically the version numbers of all clones following the generic identification method. It also supports the use of SOCKS5 in case you're firewalled. You may configure it to execute arbitrary commands on incoming messages or online/offline events. mICQ is portable, as it doesn't require any external library, so it should run on Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, Win32, BeOS, Solaris and other commercial Unices. Download at: http://www.micq.org/download.shtml Binaries (i386 .deb and .rpm) are included; the debianization and the rpm spec file are included in the .tgz. So distributions may update their packages easily (RedHat 7.3 is at mICQ 0.4.6pl1...).
The guy at LinuxTag was sort of right. It has been removed from the devel tree right after the 7.3 release was cut, so it won't be in future releases.