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Please merge pidgin 2.4.0-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

Bug #201055 reported by Pedro Fragoso
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

version 2.4.0 (02/29/2008):
        libpurple:
        * Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to
          Matthew Goldstein)
        * Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going
          or returning from idle on MySpaceIM.
        * Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the
          Bonjour protocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is
          now required to use Bonjour.
        * Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from
          ComBOTS GmbH).
        * Support for /notice on IRC.
        * Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.)
        * Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book
          on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate)
        * The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me
          as idle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when
          your libpurple preference is "no."
        * Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates
        * Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP
        * D-Bus fixes on 64bit
        * Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases on
          Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N.
          Guillen)
        * Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred
          to different server

        Pidgin:
        * Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue)
          through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the
          Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
        * Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales
          de Andrade)
        * Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos
          Heintzen)
        * Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area

        Finch:
        * Color is used in the buddylist to indicate status, and the conversation
          window to indicate various message attributes. Look at the sample gntrc
          file in the man page for details.
        * The default keybinding for dump-screen is now M-D and uses a file
          request dialog. M-d will properly delete-forward-word, and M-f has been
          fixed to imitate readline's behavior.
        * New bindings alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to help navigating between the
          higlighted windows (details on the man page).
        * Recently signed on (or off) buddies blink in the buddy list.
        * New action 'Room List' in the action list can be used to get the list of
          available chat rooms for an online account.
        * The 'Grouping' plugin can be used for alternate grouping in the
          buddylist. The current options are 'Group Online/Offline' and 'No
          Group'.
        * Added a log viewer
        * Added the ability to block/unblock buddies - see the buddy context menu
          and the menu for the buddy list.
        * Fixed a bug preventing finch working on x86_64

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :
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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :
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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :
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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :
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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :

02_lpi was missing in the way... bummer.

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Stefan Ebner (sebner) wrote :

It seems that your interdiff is broken somehow. Would you mind attaching the right one because many people would like to see pidgin 2.4 in hardy :)

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :

Can you be more specific? And first the ubuntu-release must ack this one.

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Stefan Ebner (sebner) wrote :

I suppose the interdiff (debdiff(?)) should look like your last pidgin interdiff.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11273028/pidgin_2.3.1-2ubuntu1.interdiff

from

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/177811

Furthermore I think ubuntu-release will ACK this one if the have all required files ( that means a working interdiff).

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :
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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :

Well that the same interdiff as above... Must've been some bug on browser or on LP...

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Stefan Ebner (sebner) wrote :

The interdiff you attached 5 minutes ago looks finde. Wired.
Sry for the troubles :)

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Matt Walker (matthaeus123) wrote :

I'd love to see this implemented into Hardy soon. Mostly, because I've been encountering the bugs that they fixed in the latest version.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

isn't this part of the gnome uvfe, being a gnome desktop app?

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote :

No, Pidgin isn't part of GNOME.

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Marco (mptech) wrote :

I think this would be a great addition. Seeing as *a lot* of Ubuntu users use AIM/MSN/etc, providing them with the best experience possible will only make Ubuntu more popular and usable.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

If this upload can happen by this weekend, then ack from ubuntu-release for the FFe. Otherwise, nack; changes of this size need at least some time to cook in hardy before the release, so any later than this weekend is too late for catching & resolving any regressions.

Changed in pidgin:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the libpurple replaces don't use the epoch version which is incorrect

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the pidgin replaces is also incorect

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote :

add missing epoch

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Sébastien: are you taking care of it?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

you also didn't use the epoch in the changelog so the update is a downgrade and can't be installed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

did the change and uploaded so it get testing this week, you should really test carrefully the updates you work on though

Changed in pidgin:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Miloš Jakovljević (milos-sd) wrote :

There is a bug in this Pidgin. I can not resize area in conversation window where I type. :(

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Michael-250 (michael-250) wrote :

> There is a bug in this Pidgin. I can not resize area in conversation window where I type. :(

That isn't a bug. That's a new feature! You can't manually resize the text area anymore (only auto-resize).

Corresponding part of the official changelog:
> Pidgin:
> - Input text area in conversation windows auto-resizes to fit more lines (up to a maximum of 4 lines)

If you don't like this behavior, you should complain to the pidgin developers.

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Roberto Cássio Jr. (rcsdnj) wrote :

If they change a minor release (like 2.4.1) fixing this "feature", do you think it will be able to enter in Hardy repositories (without needing another feature freeze, or wait for a backport)?

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