The following reply was made to PR pkg/36840; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: lars.nordlund@hem.utfors.se
Subject: Re: pkg/36840: sametime support in pidgin lost after gaim
 2(wip)->pidgin switch
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:18:38 +0200

 On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:50:00 +0000 (UTC)
 lars.nordlund@hem.utfors.se wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > When gaim 2.0 beta in pkgsrc-wip became pkgsrc/chat/pidgin, sametime
 > support was lost. It is achieved with the use of the meanwhile library.
 > 
 > I propose importing wip/meanwhile into pkgsrc/chat and adding the
 > following patch to chat/libpurple:
 
 Isn't what you want chat/pidgin-sametime? it's a different pkg.
 
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