Hello, I have done the pidgin packaging. First we provided a singe package, which would not conflict with gaim, it would just provide "pidgin", it could be used together with gaim. Later, we backported the package as provided on Debian. I did not had any special considerations that were not covered by Debian, I have tested the package prior to publishing, I found no issues. You can also check for issues reported by users: You can see the comments at <a href="http://www.getdeb.net/comment.php?rel_id=1462">http://www.getdeb.net/comment.php?rel_id=1462</a> The main issue is the -data package which needs to be installed first, gdebi will call dpkg -i and break the apt cache because the existing "piding" will miss it's dependencies, this is a known dpkg/gdebi limitation as noted on a previous thread on this list. Thanks <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, That's a good example of something not easy to backport and I would be curious to know how you made sure that your pidgin packages was not breaking other packages using gaim (various gaim plugins, nautilus-sendto, etc). Did you provide piding variant of those with dummy transition packages, correct Conflicts informations, updated Depends? Or did you just shipped the new version without consideration for those issues? Sebastien Bacher -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com"> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> -- João Pinto IRC: Lamego @ <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a> Jabber ID: <a href="mailto:lamego.pinto@gmail.com">lamego.pinto@gmail.com</a> GetDeb Project Manager - <a href="http://www.getdeb.net">http://www.getdeb.net</a>