i guess the bug is still present can you check this again and please try to define the steps to reproduce it i will also discuss it with the developer
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861045 Title: Empathy shows Yahoo users as "Available" rather than actual status Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For the past few months "Offline" and "Available" are the only statuses I have seen for Yahoo users. Pidgin shows the correct status "away", "busy" etc. . Empathy 2.34.0 Ubuntu 11.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Sep 27 20:26:19 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-01 (149 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/861045/+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