There is no support for Linx Mint 17.1

[Ethan Blanton]

Brian Morrison spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > I tried to install the last version of pidgin but it says There is no
> > support for Linx Mint 17.1, please fix it. Thanks! 
> 
> You need to ask whoever packages Pidgin for that distribution of Linux,
> I don't know who but it shouldn't be too difficult to find out.

This specifically comes from the fact that the Ubuntu PPA for Pidgin
tells Mint users to contact us if the PPA configuration doesn't know
that it can run on their Mint.

Ethan