pidgin-libnotify removed, but no alternative provided in Ubuntu 20.04

[Pavel Roskin]

pidgin-libnotify was removed in Ubuntu 20.04
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=pidgin-libnotify

Users are advised to install the package compiled for Ubuntu 18.04
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1232938/pidgin-missing-libnotify-plugin-on-ubuntu-20-04

As far as I can tell, no plugins with equivalent functionality are packaged for Ubuntu 20.04.

One possible replacement is purple-libnotify-plus:
https://github.com/sardemff7/purple-libnotify-plus/

Please note that pidgin-libnotify is not just about notifications, it allows Pidgin to be run in background. That's a significant feature missing from Ubuntu 20.04.

Without pidgin-libnotify installed, pidgin exists when its last window is closed. With pidgin-libnotify installed and enabled under Tools->Plugins, pidgin remains in memory when its last window is closed as evidenced by "ps x | grep pidgin"

I'm using up-to-date Ubuntu 20.04.1 with pidgin 1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4 and pidgin-plugin-pack 2.7.0-4.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.