Re: Pidgin with version patch
* Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> [2008-07-19 22:40:44 CEST]:
> * Marko Randjelovic <marel@sbb.rs> [2008-07-19 17:21:34 CEST]:
> > I have finally succeeded to make Pidgin packages that can connect to
> > ICQ. I downloaded sources from backports.org and applied this patch:
> >
> > http://developer.pidgin.im/attachment/ticket/6220/pidgin-oscar-versionfix.patch
>
> Hmm, I wonder about the need for that - is there troubles to backport
> the current testing version of pidgin? Would it require special library
> backports to be useable in stable? Guido, are you still keeping track of
> it? From a quick check it seems to want libsilc, is that "all" that's
> missing, can that part maybe get disabled?
Just gave it a quick try - removing the libsilc-dev build-dependency
works. Propably SILC should get removed from all package descriptions
too so that people don't think this pidgin backport would support it.
Hope that helps,
Rhonda
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