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

[matt nicholson]

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Matt Nicholson
sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com

On 5/28/07, Mahdi <mahdi_hates_spam at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
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> I guess it should be backported as fast as possible.
> Feisty is a final (stable) release, and the amount of beta packages on it
> should be minimized. And since gaim is no longer "mantained" (only pidgin),
> it sould be a good idea to backport the latest stable release it to get
> upstream support (and also a more stable version).
>
> I don't think we should wait for all the plugins to be released for
> pidgin since most of the people doesn't use any of them at all or only 2
> or 3 (like guifications and extended prefs). Anyway, I think most of the
> users will be happy only with plain pidgin. And i really think some of
> the plugins will now be discontinued. And finally I don't consider "not
> backporting some plugins" a package breakage. All those plugins are
> recommends or suggests, not depends. Anyone who really needs a certain
> not-backported plugin should stick to gaim anyway.
>
> I guess backporting pidgin to feisty is only a matter of removing gaim
> from ubuntu-desktop (or changing it to "gaim | pidgin") and repackaging
> it. Some upgrades might be necessary but i think people are already
> working on that.


acctually, when building pedgin in prevu, a gaim*>deb is generated, for the
sole purpose of allowing upgrades. since ubuntu-desktop depends on gaim, and
the new gaim package is nothing , or than depending on pidgin (well it
cleans up some things i think), the upgrade path is clean, and doesn't
require ubuntu-desktop etc to be rebuilt.

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> Backport Pidgin 2.0.0 Final to Fiesty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112511
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