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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2016-03-18 21:34:43, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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.

Thinking more about this, I am not sure this will be necessary. There is
an effort underway to merge OTR in the main irssi package, and there are
only two other irssi plugins out there, so I am not sure this is worth
the effort.

Surely this is a bug that should be reported against irssi in any case.

A.

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