Undesirable Behavior of Pidgin in Ubuntu 8.04

[NoOp]

On 02/11/2009 09:09 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/11/2009 03:58 AM, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
>> I am getting "Segmentation Fault" error on console.
>> I did some goggling on this and it looks like this error has been
>> fixed in revision 2.5.2.
>> 
>> But I am using the same revision number still getting this error.
>> Do we have some plan to upgrade Pidgin to the latest one i.e 2.5.4 in
>> the Ubuntu repository ?
> 
> Doesn't seem to be terribly stable overall:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/316636
> [Please upgrade to pidgin 2.5.4]
> 

Sorry, forgot this part:

http://www.getdeb.net/app/Pidgin
http://www.getdeb.net/release/3735

Given that your version is crashing anyway. Backup your pidgin files,
purge the current repo version and give the getdeb 2.5.4 version a try.
If that doesn't work, then you can always revert back.