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This is the great pidgin stabilization bug.

For amd64, hppa, ppc, ppc64, sparc, x86 x86-fbsd which have gaim stable and
~arch on pidgin, please mark stable. x86-fbsd, do as you wish, since you don't
have any gaim version stable.

For alpha, arm, ia64 and mips (vapier?), pidgin has none of those keywords, so
you'll be regressed when gaim is p.masked.

These are the packages to mark stable:
net-im/pidgin-2.1.0
net-im/librvp-0.9.6
x11-plugins/guifications-2.14
x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption-3.0
x11-plugins/pidgin-extprefs-0.7
x11-plugins/pidgin-hotkeys-0.2.3
x11-plugins/pidgin-libnotify-0.13
x11-plugins/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0
x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack-1.0


Please also be aware that in the near future, the following packages will be
added to package.mask

# These plugins are no longer maintained upstream
# and have not been ported to pidgin
app-accessibility/festival-gaim
net-im/gaim-blogger
net-im/gaim-bnet
x11-plugins/autoprofile
x11-plugins/bangexec
x11-plugins/gaim-assistant
x11-plugins/gaim-galago
x11-plugins/gaim-xfire
x11-plugins/gaimosd
x11-themes/gaim-smileys

# This plugin has been integrated into net-im/pidgin
net-im/gaim-meanwhile

# These are now part of x11-plugins/purple_plugin-pack
net-im/gaim-snpp
x11-plugins/gaim-slashexec
x11-plugins/ignorance

# Renamed (replace gaim with pidgin in their name)
x11-plugins/gaim-assistant
x11-plugins/gaim-encryption
x11-plugins/gaim-extprefs
x11-plugins/gaim-hotkeys
x11-plugins/gaim-libnotify
x11-plugins/gaim-otr
x11-plugins/gaim-rhythmbox

Oops, please also stabilize:

x11-plugins/pidgin-latex-1.0
x11-plugins/pidgin-otr-3.0.0

BSD won't stable anything, they don't have a stable keyword.

sparc stable:

=net-im/pidgin-2.1.0
=net-libs/libotr-3.0.0
=x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption-3.0
=x11-plugins/pidgin-extprefs-0.7
=x11-plugins/pidgin-otr-3.0.0
=x11-plugins/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0
=x11-plugins/guifications-2.14

The rest aren't even ~sparc keyworded, i may look into the interesting ones at
some point.

Stable for HPPA:
  =net-im/pidgin-2.1.0
  =x11-plugins/guifications-2.14
  =x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption-3.0
  =x11-plugins/pidgin-extprefs-0.7
  =x11-plugins/pidgin-hotkeys-0.2.3
  =x11-plugins/pidgin-libnotify-0.13
  =x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack-1.0

x86 stable, all of them

All marked stable on amd64.

Added ~alpha/~ia64 to pidgin-2.1.1, leaving us in cc so we can stabilize in 30
days

stable on ppc:
net-im/pidgin-2.1.0
x11-plugins/guifications-2.14
x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption-3.0
x11-plugins/pidgin-extprefs-0.7
x11-plugins/pidgin-libnotify-0.13
x11-plugins/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0
x11-plugins/pidgin-latex-1.0
x11-plugins/pidgin-otr-3.0.0

~ppc keyword added:
x11-plugins/pidgin-hotkeys-0.2.3
x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack-1.0

net-im/librvp-0.9.6 is not keyworded. We'll wait until a ppc user requests it.

leaving us on cc for stabling the ~ppc packages in 30 days

mips: be aware that I plan on p.masking gaim around the Sept 30 once
alpha/ia64/ppcs have made their stuff stable.

alpha/ia64: If you want, you can go straight to 2.1.1 and skip 2.1.0, I plan on
request it stable around that time anyway.

ppc64 is held back by bug #152606

(In reply to comment #10)
> ppc64 is held back by bug #152606

Does any other version of pidgin work on ppc64, perhaps pidgin 2.1.x or 2.2.x ? 

Unfortunately, no, no version of pidgin works on ppc64 at the moment.  I'm
still looking into this, it's "hanging" when creating the buddy list window, at
the point where it creates the first status box.  I don't quite see why though,
but it spends a really long time in g_hash_table_lookup, see the backtrace in
the bug linked here for the exact chain of events.  

I'd take this upstream for some help, but the gaim/pidgin developers have
historically not been very friendly to Gentoo.  Would that be worth my time, or
should I continue working on it myself?

Does it work on ppc64 on other distributions ? If it does, lets find out what
they do differently. If not, yea, talk to upstream, they'll probably be
interested.

I am not aware of another distribution that is completely 64bit ppc64.  For
example, Fedora, RHEL, and SLES are all 64bit kernel, have biarch toolchains,
but most of the userland is 32bit. 

In this case, the problem is with our 64bit kernel and fully and only 64bit
userland.  With the 64bit kernel and 32bit userland implementation of Gentoo,
it works fine.

stable on ppc:
x11-plugins/pidgin-hotkeys-0.2.3
x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack-1.0

This would be 2.2.1 now because of bug #194278 ... 

alpha/ia64/x86 stable

mips: I'm going to remove gaim from the tree in the near future (days, not
weeks), if you plan on marking pidgin stable, now would be a good time.

ppc64: The same applies to you, now is a good time to fix that glib/gcc bug on
your platform..

this really can't be fixed before #152606

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 152606 ***