Comment 8 for bug 1362368

Well, I tried to include changelog but apparently I run dch -i at the wrong moment. Anyway, it should be fixed now.

As for notify.so, it is provided by pidgin_2.10.9-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb:
$ apt-file search /usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so
pidgin: /usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so
pidgin-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so

Also, it was there originally, I did not touch that line. True, it was meant to be turned on by default but it was not (that is what the line <pref name='loaded' type='pathlist'> does). It provides notifications about new messages, I think, quite a sensible thing to have turned on by default.