pidgin/pidgin

Merged in fbellet/pidgin/port-changes-from-branch-2.x.y-to-default (pull request #632)

Port changes from branch 2.x.y to default

Approved-by: Eion Robb
Approved-by: John Bailey
Approved-by: Gary Kramlich
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