My thanks to zulfikars.org for an excellent, easy-to-follow solution to the Pidgin-Yahoo problem. It worked like a champ, and I didn’t have to update to sid.

It’s also a great introduction to building packages in Debian.

/cs

UPDATE: After I implemented the above solution, I learned about Debian backports. zulfikars’s solution is excellent and informative, but backports.org’s is more user-friendly, and easier to handle for the noob.  /cs