[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] irssi 1.1.1 upload, abi breakage

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Rhonda D'Vine:
>  just to let you know I plan to upload irssi 1.1.1 to unstable within
> the next few days, which will result in a breakage for not being able to
> load your module package anymore:

> 23:23 -!- Irssi: otr/otr is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot load
> 23:23 -!- Irssi: robustirc/core is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot load
> 23:23 -!- Irssi: robustirc/fe is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot load
> 23:23 -!- Irssi: robustirc/core is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot load
> 23:23 -!- Irssi: xmpp/core is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot load
> 23:23 -!- Irssi: Error loading module xmpp/fe: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/irssi/modules/libfe_xmpp.so: undefined symbol: xmpp_subscription
> 23:23 -!- Irssi: xmpp/core is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot load

>  I will add a "Breaks" into the upload to the version of your current
> module version with a <= comparison.  On the other hand, I just did a
> testbuild of the current source in unstable against the new version of
> irssi and it builds without any changes, so it should be just a matter
> to file binNMUs to fix that Breaks (which I think is needed for upgrade
> reasons anyway).  See this as a headsup for the plan, please let me know
> if you see any issue with that approach.

Antoine, Holger: can you handle this?

>  There also was some discussion raised last time to maybe offer some
> "Provides: irssi-abi-$" and have the modules depend on that instead of
> irssi directly.  If anyone has knowledge in how to accomplish that
> please get in touch with me so that I can look into getting that set up
> and coordinated with you lot. :)

That would be amazing!

Cheers,
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intrigeri