Attached a debdiff that builds on what others have said here and successfully resolves the problem for me.
diff -u purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/control 
purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/control
--- purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/control
+++ purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), pidgin-dev, pkg-config, libgtk2.0-dev, 
libglib2.0-dev, libxml-parser-perl
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), pidgin-dev, pkg-config, libgtk2.0-dev, 
libglib2.0-dev, libxml-parser-perl, libgtkspell-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: pidgin-plugin-pack
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@
  .
  SSL Info: adds a menu item to display info about the SSL plugin in use
  .
+ Switch Spell: switch spell checker language
+ .
  Talk Filters: adds support for GNU Talk Filters in Gaim conversations. 
         Note: Talk Filters must be installed for this plugin to work.
  .
diff -u purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/changelog 
purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/changelog
--- purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/changelog
+++ purple-plugin-pack-2.0.0/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+purple-plugin-pack (2.0.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * fixed missing dependency for switchspell (closes: #471679, #471680)
+
+ -- Florian Grandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:12:07 -0200
+
 purple-plugin-pack (2.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release (Closes: #434958)

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