Thanks for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Sorry we don't always have the resources to get to every bug report. Ubuntu 10.04 is no longer supported so I'm going to close the bug.
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781494 Title: Apply upstream fix to broken perl plugins for pidgin 2.6.6 Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin A bug in pidgin 2.6.6 means that signals (aka events) in perl plugins are passed invalid/incorrect arguments. This has already been documented and fixed upstream. See http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11431. Here is the fix (reverts the regression while also avoiding the compiler warning that prompted the original change): http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/b84cb254e83a2dd3b31443d05163b32875e98fdf/with/3762c9332c14ac3b681bae2c99c49773c2e46e8a/libpurple/plugins/perl /perl-handlers.c. Since lucid will be around for several more years and there's no urgent reason (read security fixes) to move lucid to 2.7.x, could this minor fix be applied to allow perl pidgin plugins to work again in lucid? It's hard to release plugins when you have to then also convince most of your users to upgrade via a ppa or backports just to get basic plugins to work. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Release: 10.04 apt-cache policy pidgin pidgin: Installed: 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.3 Candidate: 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.3 Version table: *** 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.1 0 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/781494/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp