Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian

Where did they get the 2.5.5 tarball from? The Pidgin website is still at 2.5.4.

Ok, they got it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/

2.5.5 shows up on the pidgin site now chris. (just an FYI :D)

Surfaz - are you doing the merge then? You've subscribed sponsors, but there isn't anything for them to sponsor yet

As we are passed feature freeze, I believe this will also need a FFe. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess)

2009/3/8 Chris Coulson <email address hidden>:
> As we are passed feature freeze, I believe this will also need a FFe.
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess)
>

If Surfaz didn't want to handle it (and mislead in the process), I
made the previous pidgin merge and agree to merge it again against
debian if seb128 gives a FFe.
Looking at the changelog, it is mainly a bug fix release, but some new
beta features are also provided.

Thanks Didier :)

doing the update would be a good idea indeed

unsubscribing sponsors since there is no nothing to sponsor there yet

Pidgin 2.5.2 does report "The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade ..."

Confirming 5ketcher message, using Pidgin 2.5.2 (Intrepid): trying to connect to ICQ Network. Interestingly AIM still works.

Merging it right now.

Done, see the related branch.

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu1

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pidgin (1:2.5.5-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian, remaining changes: (LP: #316636, #336647)
    - debian/control:
      + Add Build-Deps on liblaunchpad-integration-dev, intltool,
      network-manager-dev
      + Add epoch in dependencies
      + Drop the libpurple0 dependency on libpurple-bin
    - debian/libpurple0.symbols: add epoch to symbol
    - debian/pidgin-dbg.preinst, debian/pidgin-dev.preinst,
      debian/pidgin.preinst: add epoch
    - Update debian/prefs.xml to set the notify plugin prefs
      /plugins/gtk/X11/notify/*, set /pidgin/plugins/loaded to load
      the notify plugin and enable the standard logging options by default
    - debian/rules:
      + remove --disable-nm as nm has been fixed in Ubuntu
      + Add X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain to the desktop file and update the
        translation templates in common-install-impl::
    - debian/patches:
      + 02_lpi.patch for LP integration
      + 04_let_crasher_for_apport.patch to stop catching the SIGSEGV signal
        and let apport handle it
      + 05_default_to_irc_ubuntu_com.patch to set the default IRC
        server to irc.ubuntu.com
      + 70_autoconf.patch
      + 60_1024x600_gtk*.c.patch: Add scrolled bars into account dialog,
        pounce windows and preference window when screen height is less than 600.
  * Adapt debian/patches/02_lpi.patch
  * Re-generate debian/patches/70_autoconf.patch
  * Remove debian/patches/fix-icons-backport-from-2.5.5mtn.diff as taken
    upstream

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:25:48 +0100

Could you provide a package for hardy too? ICQ doesnt work anymore with pidgin (at least in germany).

Jan K - please open a separate bug report for a backport, or about the ICQ problem.