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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2016-03-26 07:31:46, intrigeri wrote:
> 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?

I don't know.

But before anyone starts working on this now - i have what i think is a
working package now here:

http://paste.anarc.at/otr/

It's been tested by a friend, but i would appreciate more
testing. Waiting for an upstream release for a bit now to avoid
packaging a snapshot.

A.

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