[pkg-otr-team] Bug#818590: irssi-plugin-otr: mismatching ABI version with current irssi
intrigeri
intrigeri at debian.org
Sat Mar 26 11:31:46 UTC 2016
Hi,
Andreas Beckmann wrote (19 Mar 2016 01:34:43 GMT) :
> 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.
Absolutely.
> 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.
Yes, thanks for clarifying.
In passing: I've no clue how many other irssi plugin packages are
affected as well. This can't be just irssi-plugin-otr, can it?
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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