On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 03:01:33PM -0600, Gary Kramlich wrote: > Hello, I'm Gary Kramlich the lead developer of Pidgin. While 3.0 does work, > I think putting it in experimental right now is a bit premature. It's been > in development for the better part of a decade (if it hasn't already been a > decade). There is a lot of stuff that's in bad shape and is not compatible > with Pidgin 2 in any way shape or form (minus the config directory). That > said it requires a currently unpackage library called gplugin (written by > me) that does have packaging written but is not in any distributions at > this time. It does however follow a fairly recent version of the Debian > standards. > > I am working on getting all of this stuff into so packagecloud.io > repositories for people to try, but right now having more people dealing > with dependency changes and stuff right now doesn't seem like a good use of > anyone's time.
I appreciate the feedback. If you don't think Pidgin 3.0 is suitable even for experimental at this time, and you don't want anyone other than its developers testing it yet, then it probably isn't a good idea to package it yet. My goal was purely to seek a GTK+3 version of Pidgin, and some searching turned up the Pidgin 3.0 branch.
