Obsolete plugins should be removed

[Dominik George]

The Plugin Pack could use a general clean up as it contains several obsolete plugins.

Examples are "Show Offline" and "Last Seen". Their functionality is now supported natively by Pidgin and enabling the plugins results in a confusing UI and probably inconsistent data.

Their are probably more plugins with a similar issue.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 7 19:50:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: pidgin-plugin-pack 2.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: purple-plugin-pack
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package purple-plugin-pack - 2.6.2-0ubuntu1

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purple-plugin-pack (2.6.2-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (LP: #500310)
  * Disable "Show Offline" and "Last Seen" plugins as the functionality
    has been integrated into Pidgin. (LP: #477705)
  * Replace previous watch file with a comment saying that it's not possible
    to detect new releases.
  * Fix lintian warnings extended-description-line-too-long and
    copyright-refers-to-symlink-license.
  * Update short description to not mention the exact number of plugins.
  * Line-wrap Build-Depends.
  * Update maintainer field to comply with the new specification.
 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:22:23 +0100

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Please reopen the bug if you find more obsolete plugins.

[spinstartshere (spinstartshere)]

How has the functionality of the "Last Seen" plugin been added to Pidgin? I had to downgrade to an older version of the pidgin-plugin-pack package because looking for the features the Last Seen plugin offered was giving me a headache.

[Kenyoni (kenyoni)]

I totally agree with Dinero. Only one small piece of "Last Seen" has been integrated into Pidgin. I really like the full functionality of this plugin. I do not see the logic in taking it out, even if there is some overlap.

*Please* put it back in.

It will really suck if I have to put up a ppa to fix this stupidity myself.

[Francisco José Cañizares Santofimia (telefrancisco)]

I agree with comments #4 and #5, put back in "Last seen" ASAP, please.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

I created a new bug report for this:
Bug #545337