Why package description for Empathy lists IRC as a protocol?

Issue

• In the description of Empathy, it lists IRC as a protocol but Bug 840408 lists You are not supposed to use empathy for IRC in RHEL7, which is why we do not ship telepathy-idle. Please use xchat instead. indicating Empathy does not really support IRC.
• Package description for Empathy lists IRC as a protocol

[root@ptoshniw ~]# yum info empathy
Loaded plugins: changelog, fs-snapshot, priorities, product-id, refresh-
              : packagekit, rhnplugin, rpm-warm-cache, subscription-manager,
              : verify, versionlock
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
Installed Packages
Name        : empathy
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.8.4
Release     : 6.el7
Size        : 13 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : CSB-RHEL7-updates
Summary     : Instant Messaging Client for GNOME
URL         : http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
License     : GPLv2+
Description : Empathy is powerful multi-protocol instant messaging client which
            : supports Jabber, GTalk, MSN, IRC, Salut, and other protocols.
            : It is built on top of the Telepathy framework.