On Montag, 9. März 2009, Michelle Konzack wrote: > do you provide a Backport for Lenny or do any Pidgin users have to > compile this pig its own? Currently over 1700 Workstations of my > (commercial) customers do not more work..
I have talked to Ari Pollak (the package maintainer) and he says that the package will not be updated in Lenny as this is not a 'grave' bug. It's a malfunctioning due to a change in a non-free internet service and far from making pidgin unusable. > I would tag this bug with severity "major" and ask for an update > exception for Lenny or put it on <volatile>. No idea if this would fit into volatile. Meanwhile I'm preparing a backports.org upload. > Note: I have already backported pidgin for some minutes and I hope > I can start the updates on my customers networks (68) which > give me a bunch of problems since I am on GSM/HSDPA. Such > bugs are not realy funny, exspecialy if commercial GNU/Linux > users relay on it. Perhaps your users should rely on free protocols like Jabber instead. For the unfunny part you may rather want to talk to the operator of ICQ instead. It's neither the pidgin upstream developers nor Debian's fault really. Christoph
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