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Package Details: finch 2.14.14-5

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Git Clone URL:	https://aur.archlinux.org/pidgin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base:	pidgin
Description:	ncurses-based messaging client
Upstream URL:	https://pidgin.im/
Licenses:	GPL
Submitter:	arojas
Maintainer:	andreas_baumann
Last Packager:	andreas_baumann
Votes:	2
Popularity:	1.07
First Submitted:	2026-04-07 17:27 (UTC)
Last Updated:	2026-05-15 19:44 (UTC)

Dependencies (18)

libgnt^AUR (libgnt3-hg^AUR)
libpurple^AUR (libpurple-minimal^AUR, pidgin-hg^AUR, pidgin-mini^AUR, libpurple-privacy^AUR, libpurple-gnutls^AUR)
libx11 (libx11-git^AUR)
avahi (make)
ca-certificates (ca-certificates-utils) (make)
dbus-glib (make)
farstream (make)
intltool (make)
libgadu^AUR (make)
libgnt^AUR (libgnt3-hg^AUR) (make)
libidn (libidn-git^AUR) (make)
libnm (libnm-git^AUR, libnm-clat^AUR, libnm-iwd^AUR) (make)
libnsl (libnsl-git^AUR) (make)
libsasl (make)
libxcrypt (libxcrypt-git^AUR) (make)
nss (nss-hg^AUR) (make)
python (make)
tk (tk-fossil^AUR) (make)

Required by (2)

libaxon-bin (optional)
purple-oicq (optional)

Sources (4)

Latest Comments

Mr.Tao commented on 2026-05-11 21:22 (UTC)

No problem. You might also be interested in including pidgin-scale-buddy-icons-for-window.patch. ;-) I've just submitted it for review.

andreas_baumann commented on 2026-05-11 17:34 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, applied. :-)

Mr.Tao commented on 2026-05-11 15:04 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-11 15:04 (UTC) by Mr.Tao)

Proposed fix for GStreamer device-monitor crashes

I think the crashes reported around Pidgin/libpurple + GStreamer device monitoring are caused by a dangling GstDevice pointer in libpurple/mediamanager.c.

There is already an upstream fix for the main use-after-free issue. I also added a small follow-up cleanup patch to avoid leaking the GstDevice references returned by gst_message_parse_device_added() / gst_message_parse_device_removed().

I tested this in the pidgin-gnutls AUR package. The two relevant patches are:

For this packagebase, the required change should be:

bump pkgrel from 4 to 5
add both patches to source=()
add their sha256sums
apply both patches in prepare()

This fix belongs here rather than in pidgin-gtkui, because the crash is in libpurple and this packagebase builds libpurple / finch.