Pidgin should support voice and video (audio chat & webcams).

Thank you for your bug. That looks like an upstream request

There's a new upstream version available, pidgin 2.6.0, that adds a video/voice chat and whole slew of nice new features and bufixes. Should I report another bug about packaging Pidgin 2.6.x or this bug is enough to get Pidgin 2.6.1 available in Ubuntu 9.10 ?

According to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=7;bug=542311 new packages of pidgin for Debian are on the way:

From: Ari Pollak <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:42:16 -0400

#pidgin (2.6.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * New upstream release (Closes: #542311)
# - Fixes hurd FTBFS (Closes: #530893)
# - Supports auto-join in XMPP (Closes: #462250)
# - Fixes some problems with international characters (Closes: #469829)
# - purple-* commandline utilities now pass return value from dbus-send
# (Closes: #504314)
# - Fixes lots of problems with XMPP new mail notifications (Closes: #505760)
# - Fixes crash when adding/removing MSN buddy (Closes: #531201)
# - Contact availability plugin ignores autoreplies (Closes: #459667)
# - Fixes some people not showing up when offline (Closes: #533314)
# * Add Network Manager support back in since there's a -f commandline option
# to override it if it fails horribly (Closes: #534698)

package pidgin-data finch libpurple-dev pidgin-dev pidgin libpurple0 pidgin-dbg finch-dev libpurple-bin
tags 542311 + pending
tags 459667 + pending
tags 462250 + pending
tags 530893 + pending
tags 534698 + pending
tags 533314 + pending
tags 531201 + pending
tags 469829 + pending
tags 505760 + pending
tags 504314 + pending

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