[pkg-otr-team] Bug#818590: irssi-plugin-otr: mismatching ABI version with current irssi

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:09:45 +0100 intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> wrote:
> Someone (who can first verify that this would fix the problem) should
> get a binNMU scheduled, I guess :)

While this would probably make the package installable again, this is
not the proper fix. Next bump and this happens again.

irssi needs to arrange to provide a virtual package, e.g. irssi-abi-1
and must ensure that plugins pick up a proper dependency on this virtual
package. Once the abi changes (and the virtual package is renamed), this
will visibly trigger a transition.

There are several packages in the archive doing this, I think proftpd is
one of them.


Andreas