New Pidgin duplicates buddies in AIM

[varchar255]

When using the new Pidgin 2.1.1, I noticed some buddies were duplicated (exact same name but appearing in different groups). I checked blist.xml and Pidgin seems to be adding the second name on its own as older versions used the exact same blist.xml with no problems. This is a problem because when I removed one of the two names in Pidgin, apparently the AIM server correctly had only one name so it resulted in the buddy being removed completely whereas I just wanted to get rid of the Pidgin duplicate.

I'm using Pidgin 2.1.1 on Windows. This was definitely working in Gaim beta 6, and I think it was ok in 2.1.0 also although I didn't specifically look for it.

[nhulsch]

i can confirm that for pidgin 2.1.1 running on fedora core 6.

also the notify plugin is logging every event twice in the conversation window (i guess because the buddy is twice in the list)

[loptosko]

Duplicate of #2712

[varchar255]

Replying to loptosko:

Duplicate of #2712

Are you sure this is a dupe? Bug 2712 is talking about duplicated groups, not buddies, and in my case I do not have any non-English characters in the names of my buddies.

[loptosko]

Sorry I mistaken.

But anyway, I just noticed the same thing happening to me (Pidgin 2.1.1). I had the same contact in 2 groups, and when I removed it from one group, logged out and back, the another contact disappeared too. I don't know if it happened in older versions of Pidgin.

[nhulsch]

bug is still there in 2.2.0

[nhulsch]

this attachment will fix the duplicate buddies at the oscar protocol.

i have to say, that you have to manually kick (one of) the duplicate buddies out of the blist.xml file. After that it will not duplicate any buddy.

I've just restorted that line from 2.1.0 - maybe the pidgin team can say something to that change.

[MarkDoliner]

You're allowed to have the same buddy in multiple groups in AIM. Earlier versions of Pidgin showed each buddy in at most one group, even if they were supposed to be listed in more than one group (because your buddylist stored on the server has them in more than one group).

This was fixed to correctly display the buddy in both groups. If you delete one of them it shouldn't come back. I can't reproduce the bug where deleting one of the buddies causes both of them to be deleted.

If you have a buddy in more than one group and you can't delete him then let me know. Otherwise everything here sounds like it's working properly.