Comment 6 for bug 1861006

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voidstarstar (voidstarstar) wrote :

This seems like it's caused by the removal of pidgin-libnotify from the 20.04 repository. Was this done by mistake? The pidgin package recommends pidgin-libnotify in both 18.04 and 20.04, but for some reason pidgin-libnotify doesn't exist in the 20.04 repository. I don't see any explanation for why this was removed, so I assume it was just an oversight.

Dependency exists: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/pidgin
Dependency broken: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/pidgin

Note: This seems like it might affect all versions after Focal too (Groovy, Hirsute, Impish, etc.).

Since using the 18.04 .deb is reported to work (see links below), I don't think any changes need to be made other than to build a release for focal.

Related:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1232938/pidgin-missing-libnotify-plugin-on-ubuntu-20-04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin-libnotify/+bug/1903788