If the release notification plugin is enabled, pidgin will attempt to connect to pidgin.im to check whether an update is available. This connection will currently fail to authenticate the certificate due to an error in the SSL code. The attached patch from upstream fixes the SSL problem and allows the release notification plugin to continue to work correctly. This should be viewed as an interim fix pending Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable release notification plugin (you may also possibly need the XMPP Service Discovery plugin) 2. Launch pidgin 3. Pidgin attempts to check for update but fails to authenticate
Created attachment 611566 [details, diff] Patch to ebuild
Created attachment 611568 [details, diff] Patch to ssl-gnutls.c to correct TLS authentication problem
Oops. I submitted without finishing a sentence. "Per upstream developers, this should be viewed as an interim fix pending release of pidgin 2.14.0." (Which they are going to try to get out soon.)
Is this an upstream patch?
(In reply to tt_1 from comment #4) > Is this an upstream patch? This patch is from upstream, yes. As noted, this should be viewed as an interim fix pending release of 2.14, which will HOPEFULLY be done soon but who knows, with most of the development effort going into pidgin 3.0. In the meantime, until 2.14 is released, this patch makes release notification in 2.13 work correctly.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=55f5d8938ea10bd15797d263d9dd132c74c5cc4d commit 55f5d8938ea10bd15797d263d9dd132c74c5cc4d Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-11 13:16:02 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-11 13:16:49 +0000 net-im/pidgin: Revbump to fix gnutls plugin Thanks-to: Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) <phils@caerllewys.net> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/708226 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.88, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> .../files/pidgin-2.13.0-gnutls_sni_support.patch | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++ ...in-2.13.0-r5.ebuild => pidgin-2.13.0-r6.ebuild} | 1 + 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
