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pidgin package

  1. Bug #676972
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 676972

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 676972] Re: pidgin does not connect to msn, certificate error

On Monday 29,November,2010 10:44 PM, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Martin, thank you for pushing this update. My understanding is that the
> lucid fix is more up-to-date and advanced than what is currently in
> maverick. It may be that maverick needs a follow-up update, but I don't
> run maverick so cannot comment on it. But this is what I gathered from
> what Christian was saying.

The extra portions of the patch are not really necessary, as Ubuntu's build of
Pidgin uses NSS instead of GnuTLS. For NSS builds, adding the extra certificate
works around the issue already.

The people who have needed to remove omega.contacts.msn.com are the ones who
used the workaround posted on omgubuntu in the first place, and replaced their
omega.contacts.msn.com certificates manually.

Hence, the Maverick fix is sufficient. I myself have not noticed any SSL
certificate issue since the fix was released.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin