[Pidgin] #10312: PPA key should be available for download

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#10312: PPA key should be available for download
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 Reporter:  critter  |        Owner:  rlaager
     Type:  defect   |       Status:  closed 
Milestone:           |    Component:  webpage
  Version:  2.6.2    |   Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:           |  
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Changes (by rlaager):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 I'm going to close this ticket, now that I've built the pidgin-ppa
 package. If your firewall is blocking things you need access to, talk to
 your network admin.

 zyv: Your have your dependencies backwards. If pidgin depends on pidgin-
 ppa, then you would be required to install pidgin-ppa, which is not
 currently the case. Instead, the pidgin-ppa package would need to depend
 on pidgin. But then if someone wants just finch (or even just libpurple,
 if they were using a third-party libpurple client), that forces them to
 have pidgin. So then we end up with a dependency on pidgin | finch |
 libpurple0, which could easily result in libpurple sticking around when
 someone uninstalls pidgin. Because of this, I abandoned that idea. You're
 free to skip the pidgin-ppa package and setup the repository yourself.

 As an aside, I'd much prefer some changes upstream:
 1) Ubuntu should ship all of their sources as sources.list.d files. The
 trend away from a monolithic sources.list file would be a good thing; it
 wouldn't surprise you to find things in sources.list.d.
 2) Ubuntu should provide an easy way to setup PPAs specifically.

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