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

[Mahdi]

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.

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Backport Pidgin 2.0.0 Final to Fiesty
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