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

Antoine Beaupré anarcat at debian.org
Tue May 29 14:33:40 BST 2018


On 2018-05-29 12:56:10, intrigeri wrote:
> 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?

Sure. I take it we should wait until 1.1.1 is uploaded before
rebuilding/uploading irssi-otr, is that right?

In the meantime, note that upstream has merged OTR inside the core of
irssi. This will make irssi-otr, as a separte plugin, irrelevant once
the new release ships:

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/issues/881

a.

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