[pkg-otr-team] Bug#767075: pidgin-otr: Needs to Depend: libotr5 (>= 4.1.0)

[intrigeri]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

Ralf Jung wrote (28 Oct 2014 09:38:10 GMT) :
> I just upgraded pidgin-otr on my testing system. Then pidgin fails
> to start, saying Expected libotr API version 4.1.0 incompatible with
> actual version 4.0.0. Aborting.

Thanks for reporting this bug to us.

> I had to upgrade libotr5 to the current unstable version to fix this. Obviously, the
> dependencies are not tight enough.

Right.

The root cause of the problem was in libotr itself, and has been fixed
(short-term: #767230; long-term: #767652) in 4.1.0-2, which is now in
sid, has been unblocked by the release team, and should then migrate
to testing in 10 days.

Given this, pidgin-otr will automatically pick up the right versioned
dependency on libotr next time it is rebuilt.

Also, libotr 4.1.0-1 has now migrated to testing, so this bug should
not be an issue in practice (since libotr5 didn't exist in Wheezy, so
partial upgrades are not a problem for Wheezy->Jessie upgrades).

Hence, I'm downgrading the severity of this bug.

The only remaining problematic case I can think of is partial upgrades
from Wheezy + backports to Jessie, with pidgin-otr being upgraded but
libotr being kept at the version that's currently in wheezy-backports.
To address this potential problem, I'm going to upload libotr 4.1.0-2
to wheezy-backports soon after it reaches testing. Once this is done,
I'll close this bug, as all real-world issues it may trigger will have
been solved in some way.

Cheers,
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intrigeri