My branch fixs the bug:
http://monkey.collabora.co.uk/telepathy-gabble-alban-bug15095/

Fixed in Darcs

It's still broken with gabble 0.7.4, is that release supposed to fix this bug?

reopening

The fix is there:
http://darcs.collabora.co.uk/darcsweb.cgi?r=telepathy/telepathy-gabble;a=commitdiff;h=20080425163618-a41c0-1f7775a39c9344f03098f856afe67c9ead5dcdef.gz

According to smcv's mail, the fix should be in the release:

>The "stop making coredumps, I want to go to the pub" release.
>
>tar:
>http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.4.tar.gz
>sig:
>http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.4.tar.gz.asc
>darcs:
>http://projects.collabora.co.uk/darcs/telepathy/telepathy-gabble
>tag: "telepathy-gabble 0.7.4"


> * fd.o #15095: fix MUC contacts always appearing to be offline



But when I download the tarball from the above URL, the fix is not inside.

Is the release broken?

The patch was indeed missing from the tarball. It'll be in 0.7.5 later today.