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

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> [2014-11-04 20:14:24 CET]:
> David Kalnischkies wrote (28 Oct 2014 14:00:40 GMT) :
> > Upgrading irssi from 0.8.16-1+b1 to 0.8.17-1 seems to break the OTR
> > plugin for me.
> 
> I'm wondering if this could be a side-effect of #767230.
> Can you reproduce this after upgrading libotr5 to 4.1.0-1?

 I'm not so much sure if that has anything to do with libotr API.  irssi
happens to change api/abi every now and then and plugins need to get
recompiled on almost any new irssi release.  I have the same issue with
irssi 0.8.17 from backports and irssi-plugin-otr from stable.  The
plugin needs a tighter dependency on irssi.

 I'm not familiar with how library packaging works, and whether that
could be used at all for irssi, thing is that the plugins (especially
the otr one it seems) need to get recompiled every time a new irssi
upstream release happens.

 Anyone who is willing to dig more into this is very much encouraged to
do so and help out, either for the packaging part to ease that pain, or
with upstream to make it more stable in that respect.  I'm personally
lacking the skills to do that because I haven't digged into any library
packaging work at all, so my whole soname versioning knowledge is sort
of non-existing (and I'm still uncertain if that could help here at all,
if only to produce something that the irssi-plugin-* packages won't be
installable anymore after a new irssi upload).

 Please get the binNMU done for now, and anyone more knowledgeable can
figure out how to deal with that in the future.  Sorry that I forgot to
send a mail about the new upstream release this time.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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