[Bug 112511] Re: Backport Pidgin 2.0.0 Final to Fiesty

[Michael Trausch]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 02:05 +0000, Jamie Jackson wrote:

> Any guess as to when this might be available? I'm trying to weigh my
> options...


I don't know when there will be an official backport... however, I do
have a package available (well, packages) available from
http://www.trausch.us/pidgin/ where you can download a tarball with
Pidgin 2.0.1 packages.  Included in the tarball are the following:

 - gaim_2.0.1-1_all.deb: dummy upgrade package to satisfy the
ubuntu-desktop dependency.
 - pidgin-data_2.0.1-1_all.deb - replaces gaim-data (backported from
Gutsy, then updated to 2.0.1 from upstream)
 - pidgin_2.0.1-1_i386.deb - replaces gaim (backported from Gutsy, then
updated to 2.0.1 from upstream)
 - pidgin-guifications_2.14-1_i386.deb - Guifications plugin (built w/
checkinstall with upstream tarball)
 - libotr_3.0.0-1_i386.deb - OTR library (built w/ checkinstall with
upstream tarball)
 - pidgin-otr_3.0.0-1_i386.deb - OTR plugin (built w/ checkinstall with
upstream tarball)

The packages that are built with checkinstall will require that you
uninstall the previous ones, if necessary (that is, you have to manually
uninstall gaim-guifications, libotr, and gaim-otr from the Feisty system
if you have them; they were not available from the Gutsy repo when I
built Pidgin, though I can try to come up with the time tomorrow to make
cleaner packages if necessary).  However, DO NOT UNINSTALL GAIM, as the
gaim/pidgin-data/pidgin packages will cleanly replace their Feisty
counterparts.

There seems to be two added dependencies, that you must fetch from the
repositories: libmeanwhile1 and libavahi-compat-howl0, both of which can
be installed from the repositories.  libavahi-compat-howl0 is in
Universe, while libmeanwhile1 is in Main.

A note worth mentioning:  While I have been using these packages since I
built them on May 29 without issue, I am not supporting the packages
actively.  I am certainly willing to try to help with issues related
directly to them, but I don't have a great deal of time due to school
and all.  I can be reached by Internet mail if there are any questions.
I don't know how to go about getting anything done in the backports
system, though, so this is about the best that I know how to, and can,
do for now.  Of course, 2.0.2 is out now, and I hear that 2.1.0 is
coming soonish.  If I have extra time I will update my packages to
2.0.2.  And no, I don't have a repository setup, because I haven't had
the time to figure out how to do all that yet, and I only expect to be
keeping up with Pidgin until they are able to backport it.

    — Mike

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