Pidgin IRC Color/Bold Codes Broken

Same problem here. I've tried to enable/disable the "Conversation Colours" plugin (perhaps that's not the exact name in english, as I'm running an spanish localized system) without any improvement. I'm getting lines like:

(09:58:27) CIA-3: 03koen 07org.oe.dev * rcffa4cb4... 10/ (17 files in 5 dirs): packages/gnome: sync with poky, while maintaining OE tweaks like avahi and gnutls

I just upgraded to gutsy and I see the same symptoms described here.

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3467

Fixed upstream. Hopefully either the patch or the next version of Pidgin that comes out with the patch gets into Gutsy.

Sorry if assigning this is bad, but it looks like you might be the Pidgin maintainer. Thanks.

Don't assign work to other people, that's not your job to decide what should be done by who, you can subscribe somebody though

That doesn't look like a gutsy blocker, piding is not really an IRC client and nobody else complained about that, doing a stable update fix after gutsy should be good enough

Has Pidgin/Gaim ever been updated once the distro went stable? My fear that it hasn't or very infrequently hasn't is why I thought maybe it could/should sneak into Gutsy before it's final. Sorry about assigning it to you.

If it has not been updated in stable that's probably because there was no bug wortha stable update which has been reported, not sure this one is one of those

Pidgin may not be a great IRC client, but unless I'm mistaken, it's the only one that ships by default with Ubuntu. It isn't really my place to say, but that does seem like it warrants a fix.

pidgin (1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/80_from_upstream_fix_irc_formatting_issue.patch:
    - patch from upstream, fix an IRC formatting issue
      (LP: #141201)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:18:06 +0200

Thank you Sebastien