[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#839261: hexchat-otr: establishing OTR connection fails

[io]

Hello,

i installed libotr5-bin and libotr5-dev. Then i reinstalled hexchat-
otr.

Fixed the problems for me.

Greetings
io

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 08:46:01 +0100 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
wrote:
> Hi, and thank you for your report.
> 
> [Joonas Kylmälä]
> > After I installed hexchat-otr and someone else tried to establish
an OTR
> > connection with me I got the following error and establishing the
> > connection failed:
> > 
> >  OTR: Error saving instance tags: No such file or directory
(gcrypt)
> > 
> > 
> > I expected the connection to work. Well, I figured a workaround for
> > this: installing libgcrypt20-dev package. After that the connection
> > could be made.
> 
> Interesting.  Not quite sure what went wrong there, but perhaps some
> directory is missing?  An alternative could be that there is a
missing
> dependency, but I suspect I would have discovered that during
testing.
> Anyone got any idea what went wrong?
> 
> -- 
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
> 
>