diff -Nru pidgin-2.10.12/debian/changelog pidgin-2.10.12/debian/changelog
--- pidgin-2.10.12/debian/changelog	2016-03-03 17:23:50.000000000 +0000
+++ pidgin-2.10.12/debian/changelog	2016-03-10 06:06:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+pidgin (1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Julien Lavergne ]
+  * debian/pidgin*.install
+   - Don't install gconf schemas to avoid depends on gconf (LP: #1550896).
+
+  [ Tim Lunn ]
+  * debian/control
+    - Drop build-depend on gconf2 it's not need with the above change 
+
+ -- Tim Lunn <tim@feathertop.org>  Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:06:47 +1100
+
 pidgin (1:2.10.12-0ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * Minimize delta with Debian: remaining changes:
diff -Nru pidgin-2.10.12/debian/control pidgin-2.10.12/debian/control
--- pidgin-2.10.12/debian/control	2016-03-03 17:23:22.000000000 +0000
+++ pidgin-2.10.12/debian/control	2016-03-10 05:50:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.53), debhelper (>= 7), intltool, gconf2,
+Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.53), debhelper (>= 7), intltool,
  libtool, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0),
  hardening-wrapper,
  libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.0), libxss-dev, libmeanwhile-dev,
diff -Nru pidgin-2.10.12/debian/pidgin.install pidgin-2.10.12/debian/pidgin.install
--- pidgin-2.10.12/debian/pidgin.install	2016-02-23 10:09:30.000000000 +0000
+++ pidgin-2.10.12/debian/pidgin.install	2016-03-10 05:31:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-debian/tmp/etc/gconf
 debian/tmp/usr/bin/pidgin
 debian/tmp/usr/lib/pidgin
 debian/tmp/usr/share/applications