ICQ protocol update [March 2009]

[Andreas Moog]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Please update the version of pidgin to 2.5.5. Recent protocol updates for ICQ stopped older versions to stop working. This has a major impact on the usability of Ubuntu. I've built version 2.5.5 by using Pbuilder and the ppa-build machines (buildlog for i386 attached). The built went without error.

From the NEWS-File:

2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
        John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
        one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
        for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.

        Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
        least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
        now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
        may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
        should make general usage a bit smoother.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Fixed:
pidgin (1:2.5.5-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian, remaining changes: (LP: #316636, #336647)
    - debian/control:
      + Add Build-Deps on liblaunchpad-integration-dev, intltool,
      network-manager-dev
      + Add epoch in dependencies
      + Drop the libpurple0 dependency on libpurple-bin
    - debian/libpurple0.symbols: add epoch to symbol
    - debian/pidgin-dbg.preinst, debian/pidgin-dev.preinst,
      debian/pidgin.preinst: add epoch
    - Update debian/prefs.xml to set the notify plugin prefs
      /plugins/gtk/X11/notify/*, set /pidgin/plugins/loaded to load
      the notify plugin and enable the standard logging options by default
    - debian/rules:
      + remove --disable-nm as nm has been fixed in Ubuntu
      + Add X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain to the desktop file and update the
        translation templates in common-install-impl::
    - debian/patches:
      + 02_lpi.patch for LP integration
      + 04_let_crasher_for_apport.patch to stop catching the SIGSEGV signal
        and let apport handle it
      + 05_default_to_irc_ubuntu_com.patch to set the default IRC
        server to irc.ubuntu.com
      + 70_autoconf.patch
      + 60_1024x600_gtk*.c.patch: Add scrolled bars into account dialog,
        pounce windows and preference window when screen height is less than 600.
  * Adapt debian/patches/02_lpi.patch
  * Re-generate debian/patches/70_autoconf.patch
  * Remove debian/patches/fix-icons-backport-from-2.5.5mtn.diff as taken
    upstream

Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:25:48 +0100
Changed-By: Didier Roche <email address hidden>
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Signed-By: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/pidgin/1:2.5.5-1ubuntu1

[Thomas Schewe (thosch66)]

Fixed?! Seems to me like it is fixed _only_ in Jaunty.

But Jaunty is only the actual beta/RC and there are three more still supported releases of there! I think there is still work to do.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Andreas, do you want to look into isolating the patch and backport it to previous releases? If not, please let me know, I'll find someone else. Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

ubuntu-sru subscribed, ubuntu-release unsubscribed.

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

I believe the patch is: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/1a658bb7a0436b518d65b9b95116915a5511a7d3/with/3224dd8677b28d02b866cce510941fbf67e0fcb7/libpurple/protocols/oscar/oscar.h

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks, Ilya!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Didier is looking into this.

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

Why is it marked as Undecided in Hardy, Gutsy and Dapper? Please someone mark it as High there, too, I am not allowed to do so.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is no need to add extra comments to confirm that issues or discuss settings, the bug is being worked, the change works on intrepid and will be uploaded at least as intrepid and hardy candidate updates today

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

declining the gutsy task, is there somebody still using that non lts version there?

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Intrepid and Hardy fix proposed with the patch pointed by Ilya B (thanks!)
2 bzr branches proposed for ease of review.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

looking to those

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

intrepid version uploaded

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

hardy version uploaded

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

gaim debdiff for dapper attached.

The patch is slightly modified as the function call differs.
Test is welcome on this version :)

[Raeff (raeff)]

Sebastian, I have a possibly stupid question: where did you upload the intrepid version?

Kind regards, Bernhard.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into hardy-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I just tested the current dapper version, and it works just fine with ICQ, so it seems gaim is not affected at all.

[Lars Volker (lv)]

I enabled proposed for hardy and ran "aptitude update" but still nothing happens when running "aptitude -t hardy-proposed install pidgin". What am I missing?

[[e-mail] (rg1983)]

Thanks for the package!

Is it because of multiple Mirrors, that it takes some time to come up through the update channel via apt-get update?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I downloaded the hardy debs on launchpad and confirm they fix the issue

[Rob Funk (rfunk)]

Similar to Lars above, I enabled intrepid-proposed and tried "apt-get install -t intrepid-proposed pidgin", but got nothing.
apt-cache show says that the newer version is known. So then I tried downloading manually and installing with dpkg. This led down a trail of dependency upgrades, including libdbus-glib-1-2, libgtk2.0-0, libnspr4-0d, libnss3-1d, perl, libxi6 (from libgtk2.0-0).... I decided I wasn't up for upgrading perl or an X library from -proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Yes, it'll still take a bit until the packages get built and pushed to all mirrors.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Accepted into gutsy-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

The fix works for me in Intrepid (it's already in the repos).

[Volodymyr Shcherbyna (volodymyr)]

I've updated to 2.5.5 and the problem still persist ...

[Dragomir Minkovski (dejuren)]

The fix works in Gutsy. You need to upgrade pidgin-data and libpurple0 as well.

[[e-mail] (rg1983)]

Hardy package works fine. Just activate the hardy-proposed repository and update pidgin.

[Kevin Hausmann (salema)]

Intrepid package works just fine for me. Thanks for being that fast!

[Hanno Stock (hefe_bia) (hanno-stock)]

Intrepid package works for me, too. Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Due to the urgency of this update I waive the 7 days maturing period. We have plenty of positive feedback and the patch is very focused and straightforward. Thanks everyone for feedback and reporting back!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.4

---------------
pidgin (1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.4) gutsy-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add 80_fix_ICQ_new_protocol.patch: Backport upstream patch to fix
    connection with new ICQ protocol. (LP: #340151)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:47:37 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.3

---------------
pidgin (1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.3) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * Apply upstream patch to fix connexion issue with new ICQ
    protocol: debian/patches/80_fix_ICQ_new_protocol.patch (LP: #340151)

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:31:01 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1

---------------
pidgin (1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Apply patch upstream to fix connexion issue with new ICQ
    protocol: debian/patches/80_fix_ICQ_new_protocol.patch (LP: #340151)

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:52 +0100

[Marian Sigler (maix42)]

I can also confirm that the hardy-proposed packages is working fine.

[Laszlo Kupcsik (koopac)]

Works intrepid. Thanks a lot for the fix!

[moojix (moojix)]

thanks for this fast update in Intrepid, ICQ protocol works again.

[tbjablin (tjablin)]

hardy-backports still suffers from this bug.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Confirming that there is still an outstanding hardy-backports task on this bug.

[daqron (daqron)]

Update fixed ICQ protocol but appears to have created an incompatibility with the pidgin-facebookchat plugin.

[BooVeMan (burkhard-vogel)]

@dragon - this affects Jaunty? Intrepid? Hardy? Gutsy?

[Matthias Blaicher (blaicher)]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, BooVeMan <email address hidden> wrote:
> @dragon - this affects Jaunty? Intrepid? Hardy? Gutsy?
Facebook plugin works for me with Jaunty.

[Dominik Holler (dominik-holler)]

is the fix released for 8.04/PPC, too ?

[Szabolcs Parragh (parszab)]

Sorry guys, but will this fix not make it into hardy-backports?

[Fionn (fbe)]

Yes, please, I have been waiting for a week for the fix on hardy now, still no luck :-(

So I'd like to say "me too" here!!1! ;-) And: "pleeze, send filez"

[daqron (daqron)]

@ Matthias, BooVeMan - Sorry; I'm on Intrepid. I tried reinstalling the facebookchat plugin with no luck. The facebook option is completely gone from the account settings menu. Certainly this could be caused by something else (although it happened immediately after this update) and I am not ruling out user error here, but it seems like removing/reinstalling the plugin ought to have worked. Cheers in advance for any suggestions.

[Szabolcs Parragh (parszab)]

As I see it, the problem with Hardy is that the version in backports (2.5.2) doesn't have the fix, only the stable repository version (2.4.1.) Therefore if you have backports enabled, you won't get a good version, which ICQ works with.

You'll have to disable backports, remove the podgin and pidgin-data packages, and reinstall them from tha stable repo. This is a workaround, but not the best: if you enable backports again, it will want to upgrade again for a bad version. Could you guys please put a version with the fix in the backports repo, too?

[BooVeMan (burkhard-vogel)]

> Could you guys please put a version with the fix in the [Hardy-]backports repo, too?
+1

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

This is the debdiff for hardy-backports (just reproducing Didier's changes), please review. I also linked a branch.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Taking for sponsoring.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sponsored and accepted.

[BooVeMan (burkhard-vogel)]

Thanks a bunch for the backport - Good work!