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[Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Sorry we
don't always have the resources to get to every bug report. Ubuntu 10.04
is no longer supported so I'm going to close the bug.

** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Apply upstream fix to broken perl plugins for pidgin 2.6.6

Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pidgin

  A bug in pidgin 2.6.6 means that signals (aka events) in perl plugins
  are passed invalid/incorrect arguments.  This has already been
  documented and fixed upstream.  See
  http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11431.  Here is the fix (reverts the
  regression while also avoiding the compiler warning that prompted the
  original change):
  http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/b84cb254e83a2dd3b31443d05163b32875e98fdf/with/3762c9332c14ac3b681bae2c99c49773c2e46e8a/libpurple/plugins/perl
  /perl-handlers.c.

  Since lucid will be around for several more years and there's no
  urgent reason (read security fixes) to move lucid to 2.7.x, could this
  minor fix be applied to allow perl pidgin plugins to work again in
  lucid?  It's hard to release plugins when you have to then also
  convince most of your users to upgrade via a ppa or backports just to
  get basic plugins to work.

  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  apt-cache policy pidgin
  pidgin:
    Installed: 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.3
    Candidate: 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.3
    Version table:
   *** 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.1 0
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
       1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
          500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

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