[Pidgin] #10950: Duplicate Offline Buddies

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#10950: Duplicate Offline Buddies
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 Reporter:  disturbedenergy  |        Owner:  darkrain42
     Type:  defect           |       Status:  new       
Milestone:  2.6.6            |    Component:  XMPP      
  Version:  2.6.4            |   Resolution:            
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by darkrain42):

 I just committed a fix for this, which will hopefully be in 2.6.6.  Anyone
 impacted by this will need to clean out their buddy list manually after
 updating.

 To do so, with pidgin closed, open ~/.purple/blist.xml (actual location
 may vary; see [wiki:FAQ] for details) and search for entries that look
 like
 {{{
     <contact>
         <buddy account='your-xmpp-account at example.org/resource' proto
 ='prpl-jabber'>
              <name>duplicated-buddy at buddies-domain.org</name>
         </buddy>
     </contact>
 }}}

 The key thing that differentiates these buddies from the valid entries is
 that they will not have any settings (or last_seen information).  e.g.,
 this is what an actual entry from my blist.xml looks like (names changed):
 {{{
             <contact>
                 <buddy account='foo at jabber.org/desktop' proto='prpl-
 jabber'>
                     <name>me at dev.mydomain.org</name>
                     <setting name='last_seen'
 type='int'>1266280193</setting>
                     <setting name='icon_checksum'
 type='string'>c345fa1a118cb8698241b3222d890b04ad2b4889</setting>
                     <setting name='buddy_icon'
 type='string'>c345fa1a118cb8698241b3222d890b04ad2b4889.png</setting>
                 </buddy>
             </contact>
 }}}

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