[Telepathy] empathy broken during Debian freeze

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi,

I've been using empathy in Debian testing/wheezy, which is currently
frozen pending a stable release

empathy 3.4.2.3-2
gabble 0.16.5-1

In December, I was definitely able to use audio/video calls over Jabber
(I have an ejabberd server)

Now, it is not working.  I've posted a bug report here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704232
with logs.

Looking through the mailing list history, I came across this post:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2010-October/004998.html

It suggests that empathy gets TURN servers from Google.  I can't find
anywhere to configure my TURN server manually.  It would be a big
surprise for many Debian users to find that all their media streams are
silently routed via a Google TURN server.  It also seems that if
Google's API changes, the audio/video capability in Empathy would
suddenly stop working, and that may explain why it is not working for me
any more.  So I posted another bug report about the dependency on Google:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704234

Can anybody comment on this?  Is there some way I can configure and test
it against an open source TURN server, such as the reTurn package from
Debian?  Can it discover TURN servers dynamically by DNS SRV lookup?
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=resiprocate-turn-server

Regards,

Daniel