Hi, according to my experience and other comments in the upstream bug, the fix in 2.7.6 didn't actually fix the problem properly. Release 2.7.7 is supposed to fix it, and they have even mentioned this on their front page.
I also think this should make its way to stable, because otherwise most pidgin users will not be able to use it reliably to connect to MSN Messenger, and this would be a very serious bug to end up in a stable release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org