This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.27.4-0ubuntu1

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empathy (2.27.4-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: (LP: #399878)
     - Segfault when the contact selector dispose
     - Remove should be insensitive for salut contact
     - empathy should be able to take colours from the GTK theme
     - IRC widget is cut (Matthias Clasen)
     - Add option to hide muc roster
     - time banner is added at each sentence when the remote contact is offline
     - Should take a well-known bus name (Jonny Lamb)
     - Contact list view options are scattered over "Chat" menu and "General" Preferences
     - Doesn't poke block devices to figure out their file size. (Frédéric Péters)
     - Remove libgnomevfs include in megaphone-applet.c
     - "Video preview" menu item doesn't do anything
     - Use call-stop icon (Frédéric Péters)
     - Should play a sound when calling
     - Favourite Chat Room tickybox doesn't work. (Abner Silva)
     - Adds an Adium theme parsing to have a nicer theme selector
     - EmpathyProfileChooser should extend GtkComboBox
     - Show a notification when a buddy goes to offline or online
     - Implement o.fd.Tp.Debug to publish debug messages (Jonny Lamb)
     - Shouldn't be able to send video and enable preview if no webcam is plugged
     - Call window: "send video" widgets should be enabled according the state of the call
     - we should not see the last video frame.
     - Crash when starting if status-presets.xml contains an 'unset' presence (Guillaume Desmottes)
     - Crash when trying to add an 'unset' status as favorite (Guillaume Desmottes)
     - Contact list doesn't appear in windows list when respawned
     - %service% is not replaced in adium themes (Patryk Zawadzki)
     - Use libchamplain 0.3.3's API
     - Adium theme is not reloaded on /clear or Ctrl+L or clear menu item
     - Empathy does not import from Pidgin on start
     - Capitalisation incorrect
     - Can't easily copy URL's when using Adium themes
     - Lines are not smashed together when using Adium themes (Patryk Zawadzki)
     - "Publish my location" causes a crash
     - Remove markup from translatable strings
     - Remove "new message from" from notification message (Guillaume Desmottes)
     - don't autoscroll on new messages
     - Display part reasons and messages.
     - Imported Google account (from Pidgin) not connecting (LP: #388522)
     - Adium theme should only join messages if time delta is less than 5 minutes (Patryk Zawadzki)
     - Use themed avatar as fallback if provided
     - "history" messageClasses is not set for backlogs
     - We are not using Info.plist settings for adium themes (Patryk Zawadzki)
     - telepathy-idle IRC chat window has no users or chat content
     - Status icon not updated when going offline (Guillaume Desmottes)
     - Modules linking cleanup
     - empaty crashs whenever a file trasnfert request is received
     - NM integration doesn't work if NM is started after empathy (Sjoerd Simons)
     - Don't use McAccount (Sjoerd Simons)
     - Crash when trying to add a contact while connecting (Guillaume Desmottes)
     - Labels with RTL control code don't right-align
     - please add bug-database to doap (Guillaume Desmottes)
     - typo for enable_network_manager in configure.ac (Ken VanDine)
     - Crasher: click on the microphone once disconnected
  * debian/control.in:
    - bump soname for libempathy26 -> 27 (and associated {.install,.symbols files})
    - bump soname for libempathy-gtk24 -> 25 (and associated {.install,.symbols files})
    - add build-dep libx11-dev (old missing one), libgstfarsight0.10-dev,
      libdbus-glib-1-dev and libnm-glib-dev
    - add Vcs-Bzr tag
  * add debian/patches/01_autoconf_forgot_by_upstream.patch to update configure
    from configure.ac
  * update libempathy27.symbols and libempathy-gtk25.symbols

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden>   Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:34:37 +0200