[pkg-otr-team] Bug#767103: Bug#767103: Bug#767103: irssi-plugin-otr doesn't work with irssi 0.8.17

[intrigeri]

Holger Levsen wrote (10 Nov 2014 11:54:53 GMT) :
> On Montag, 10. November 2014, intrigeri wrote:
>> Shall we ask the release team for a binNMU of irssi-plugin-otr, and
>> postpone understanding the root cause of the bug? I'm concerned that
>> it may occur again each time we upgrade libotr, but as far as Jessie
>> is concerned, this might be the way to go.

> if were doing this I'd suggest to add a versioned dependency...

I don't think that (and the corresponding source upload) is needed,
since the main libotr binary package was renamed from Wheezy to Jessie
(libotr2 -> libotr5), so the only remaining problematic partial
upgrade case is wheezy+backports to Jessie, and I intend to upload the
latest libotr to wheezy-backports in the next few days (as per Julien
Cristau's suggestion) to avoid similar issues for pidgin-otr.

Anyway, if we do that, for future-proofness you'll want to make sure
that the manually added versioned dependency doesn't interfere badly
with ${shlibs:Depends} in case that one returns a dependency on
a newer version of libotr.

Also, it would be good if someone tried current libotr (backported to
Wheezy) + wheezy-backports' irssi-plugin-otr. I'd hate to break that
one when I upload the backport.