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has caused the Debian Bug report #856813,
regarding pidgin: AIM accounts will require 2.12 as of 2017-03-28
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: pidgin
Version: 2.11.0-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
As has been reported on various tech-news sites, AOL is dropping support
for older versions of the authentication methods which third-party
clients such as Pidgin use to connect to the AOL Instant Messenger
service. This dropping of support is scheduled to take effect on March
28th, well before the expected release of Debian stretch.
The official word from upstream is that version 2.12 of Pidgin will
include support for the newer authentication methods involved, and that
this version is due for release in about a week.
To release Debian stretch with a version of Pidgin which no longer
supports connecting to one of the major instant-messaging networks,
despite a version which does still support that being available, would
obviously be undesirable. However, as we are already within the release
freeze, including the fix is not as straightforward as simply packaging
the new upstream version directly after its release.
Please take whatever measures are appropriate to ensure that a version
of pidgin which supports the new required authentication mode for AIM
either ships with Debian stretch, or is available to users of stretch as
promptly as possible after the release occurs. If such a version can be
available (even if from another repository) to users of testing in the
meantime, that would be even better.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages pidgin depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.16-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-2
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b2
ii libgadu3 1:1.12.1-4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.10.3-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1.1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.3-3
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.3-3
ii libpurple0 2.11.0-3
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.24.1] 5.24.1-1
ii pidgin-data 2.11.0-3
Versions of packages pidgin recommends:
ii gstreamer1.0-alsa 1.10.3-1
ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.10.3-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.10.3-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.10.3-1
Versions of packages pidgin suggests:
ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-2
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.12.0-1
Fixed upstream.
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