Pidgin does not connect

[Tony Manco]

On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 14:42 +0000, Ken T. wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:06:38 +0530, Balaji Damodaran wrote:
> 
> > Updating Pidgin to its latest version (2.5.7) solves the issue.
> > 
> > find out how:
> > http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Yahoo-problem-in-
> Pidgin-114754.shtml
> 
> 
> When will this be part of the normal Ubuntu updates? 
> 
> 

Yes, see this:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/389322