Comment 45 for bug 676972

On Saturday 27,November,2010 10:16 AM, Christian Reis wrote:
> There's something wrong here; I'm wondering if I'm just the only one
> that has noticed.
>
> If you look at what Roel Huybrechts provided as a lucid debdiff, it
> includes a number of changes to libpurple (for instance the inclusion of
> x509_ca_get_certs() and a callsite for it ) that simply aren't present
> in the patch that Chow Jin provided. Now I've just pulled the source for
> the pidgin package from maverick-updates and the only difference listed
> there is the certificates. AIUI just the certificates does /not/ solve
> the issue -- as a few people here have pointed out it still requires
> removing the omega.contacts.msn.com certificates manually. If this holds
> true (and I can reproduce it here) I consider this to be a pretty poor
> fix for Maverick users in general.

Hmm, yes you're right. I'm not sure where that extra bit came from though. My
understanding of the matter was that those who had manually exchanged their
omega.contacts.msn.com certificates would have to remove them before it would
work again, whereas those who hadn't would have the fix working perfectly
without any extra changes needed.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin