The gaim-dev package includes a dh_gaim utility which (thanks to Gaim's new upstream versioning policy) plugin maintainers should use to add correctly versioned dependencies on the Gaim package. Please read /usr/share/doc/gaim-dev/README.Debian.dev for more details on this.
Also appearing for the first time is the gevolution plugin which synchronises your Gaim buddy list to your Evolution address book. Huge thanks go to my trusty co-maintainer Ari Pollak for doing most of the legwork on this split up, and to Tollef Fog Heen for writing the dh_gaim utility for us.
While they're being pondered upon by the FTP masters, the source and i386 packages are available here:
deb http://people.debian.org/~robot101/gaim experimental main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~robot101/gaim experimental main
If any DDs would like to do builds on other architectures, or publish plugin packages which they have produced whilst they await FTP master attention, I can also add these to this repository upon request.
Regards, Rob