Comment 4 for bug 621309

This is still an issue here is the most recent information:
gnomefreak@Development:~$ policy pidgin
pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gnomefreak@Development:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
gnomefreak@Development:~$ uname -a
Linux Development 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux