There is new version of pidgin available (not on official site but on sourceforge). Reproducible: Always Renaming ebuild and changing SRC_URI WFM. Patch below. Warning messages should be changed though.
Created attachment 118138 [details, diff] ebuild patch
Not gnome, but net-im. Also I would suggest to not do zero-day bump requests, especially if there has been no official announcement on it yet - they might still check things and reupload tarballs on problems or whatnot and announce when all is fine.
its in....