[Bug 58129] Re: gaim 2.0 missing Sametime protocol

[Richard Laager]

Is it okay to have the same source tarball for separate packages (gaim
and gaim-meanwhile)? I think this would be frowned upon if not outright
forbidde. If the meanwhile plugin is built from the gaim source package,
that means the gaim source package would need a Build-Depends on
libmeanwhile, and things in main can't depend on things in universe.

So, unless my understanding is incorrect, no, Ubuntu can't do that.

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gaim 2.0 missing Sametime protocol
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58129