Ubuntu
meanwhile package

Meanwhile user status detection broken

Bug #264752 reported by Eberhard Beilharz on 2008-09-04

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	Pidgin	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #468893
	meanwhile (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Hardy by Eberhard Beilharz
Nominated for Intrepid by Eberhard Beilharz

Bug Description

Binary package hint: libmeanwhile1

The meanwhile plugin of Pidgin doesn't report the status of users correctly if the users have logged in before Pidgin was started (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/58). This has been fixed in Meanwhile 1.1.0 CVS branch.

Ubuntu should deliver a patched version of libmeanwhile that fixes this problem.

Environment:
Ubuntu 8.04.1
libmeanwhile1 1.0.2-3

See original description

Eberhard Beilharz (c-e-beilharz) on 2008-09-04

description:

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Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-09-04

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Christoph Lukas (christoph-lukas) wrote on 2010-02-16:

This bug is still present in jaunty, karmic, lucid. It is also present in the corresponding Debian package.

The upstream bug is here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1626349&group_id=110565&atid=656718

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Fix Released → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-03-31

Changed in pidgin:
status:	Unknown → New

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EclipseAgent (ben-kevan) wrote on 2010-04-17:

meanwhile-status.diff Edit (917 bytes, text/plain)

Come on guys.. seriously? Can't we get this fixed? It's fixed in openSUSE.

Attached it the patch for openSUSE.. Please can we get this fixed. This is a widely used enterprise application and having core functionality like this not working is unacceptable.

PLEASE can we get it resolved.

Anthony Liguori (anthony-codemonkey) on 2010-06-09

Changed in meanwhile (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Iker Ramos Bilbao (ikerramos) wrote on 2011-02-22:

Could you include the presence patch, is working fine in natty as well.

http://www.lilotux.net/~mikael/pub/meanwhile/

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Gbillou (gbillou) wrote on 2011-06-27:

Fixed in fedora, gentoo, even in windows.. What are you waiting to release this 1.1 version? or at least a patched 1.0.2 version (seems not logical to me, but would be better than nothing)?
It has been patched 2years1/2 ago!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471489
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=201611
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/58

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Eugene Crosser (crosser) wrote on 2011-11-29:

This is also reported as Pidgin bug #272108
The problem still exists as of oneiric.
Can the patch attached to this ticket be included into the release please?

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Eric Covener (covener) wrote on 2012-01-06:

FWIW, I needed just the patch from http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1626349&group_id=110565&atid=656718 to resolve my status issue.