Bug 1470685

Summary:	Disable Yahoo!
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Debarshi Ray <debarshir>
Component:	pidgin	Assignee:	Debarshi Ray <debarshir>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.5	CC:	tpelka
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Description Debarshi Ray 2017-07-13 12:58:08 UTC

Pidgin upstream has removed support for MySpace because it doesn't work anymore. See: https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/www/src/tip/htdocs/ChangeLog?fileviewer=file-view-default

It says:

* Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely
  reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as
  of August 5th, 2016:
  https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/145715934739/q2-2016-progress-report-on-our-product
  A new protocol plugin has been written to support the new protocol.
  It can be found here: https://github.com/EionRobb/funyahoo-plusplus
  This also removes support for Yahoo! Japan. According to
  http://messenger.yahoo.co.jp/ the service ended March 26th, 2014.

Let's do the same to reduce the total code surface exposed to security attacks.

Comment 2 Debarshi Ray 2017-10-05 18:16:26 UTC

There is https://github.com/EionRobb/funyahoo-plusplus that implements Yahoo's new protocol, but it apparently doesn't work. See:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469991#c4

Even if it did work, it would be a separate package, and we'd still have to disable the code inside pidgin itself.

Comment 3 Debarshi Ray 2017-10-06 16:39:28 UTC

I have built pidgin-2.10.11-6.el7:
https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=14210258

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 15:08:08 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0846