Bug#692327: libotr: Please provide libotr2

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov  5, 2012 at 11:58:12 +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:

> severity 692327 important
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Package: libotr, release.debian.org
> > Severity: serious
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> >
> > Recently libotr has been updated to version 4.x.x with binary package
> > name libotr5.
> >
> > By the looks of things, it was done because of pidgin-otr package which
> > now requires libotr5.
> >
> 
> It was done because upstream has updated their source and the new libotr is
> incompatible with the old one.
> 
Which means it's not an appropriate change during a freeze.

> 
> > But this means an un-coordinated transition has started, as there are 6
> > other packages that build-depend on libotr2-dev and all of them fail to
> > build from source against libotr5-dev:
> >
> 
> I was not aware a "coordinated transition" was necessary for such a small
> library. I'm under the impression the release team has bigger fish to fry
> right now.
> 
Which is why they very much don't appreciate this kind of disruption.
A SONAME bump in a library right now in sid is not welcome, and needs to
wait until the wheezy release.  Please revert.

Cheers,
Julien