pidgin doesn't ask for a restart after upgrade

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I have just upgrade my system running pidgin at the same time, and after the upgrade, which include a pidgin upgrade, update-notifications doesn't ask me to restart pidgin.

[Emil Sit (emilsit)]

Did pidgin stop working correctly after the upgrade?

[Nicolas Valcarcel (nvalcarcel)]

What do you mean by "stop working correctly" it doesn't stop, it works
with the old version, but starts failing at some points.

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 03:59 +0000, Emil Sit wrote:
> Did pidgin stop working correctly after the upgrade?
>
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[Emil Sit (emilsit)]

I too observed that no notification occurred, but I didn't stay with the old version long enough to see if it crashed (e.g., b/c some plugin or dynamic library had changed out from under the running binary). How did it start failing?

However, it seems like it would be easy to set the postinst script to create a notification, just like the firefox postinst script does.

[Nicolas Valcarcel (nvalcarcel)]

Yes, it doesn't really crash but it start working slow, and it fails at
some points, however, that is not very important at the moment, because
it can be a minor update and it doesn't fail hard enough, but, when we
have a critical update or a big one, then we will have critical and/or
big problems.

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 16:25 +0000, Emil Sit wrote:
> I too observed that no notification occurred, but I didn't stay with the
> old version long enough to see if it crashed (e.g., b/c some plugin or
> dynamic library had changed out from under the running binary). How did
> it start failing?
>
> However, it seems like it would be easy to set the postinst script to
> create a notification, just like the firefox postinst script does.
>
> ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, there is no point to display a notification saying you should restart the software for every software running, that's not specific to pidgin either

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

note that there is no reason that pidgin should stop working after upgrade, the running version should not change, if you have specific issues open bugs about those