Merging next.minor into trunk

[Mark Doliner]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Etan Reisner
<pidgin at unreliablesource.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:46:02AM -0800, Mark Doliner wrote:
>> Regardless of what we do with next.minor, we may want to do a small
>> patch release of 2.5.5 with a fix for the ICQ connection problem, if
>> the problems persists.  See http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8198 for
>> more info.
>
> Do we have any real information about whether the problem still exists? Do
> we know anything about what the solution actually is (i.e. what is the
> deal with these sequence numbers)? Is there any validity to the claims
> that this sequence number stuff fixes moving buddies between groups? (If
> there is than we should look into it more purely from that perspective.)

The only information I have is in that ticket and the web pages it
links to.  I left a comment on the ticket asking a few questions.  I
have no idea if there is validity to the claims that the sequence
number change fixes moving buddies between groups--if I had to guess
I'd say there is no relation.

-Mark