Unlike all the other telepathy components which accept values such as "all" for their debug environment variable, mission control 5 requires MC_DEBUG=1 to be set to get debug. This is inconsistent, so it should be changed to accept "all" instead.
The branch for Bug #23501 fixes this too.
Fixed in 5.3.1
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