[OTR-dev] 4.0.0-rc3 ready to roll. Please try it out!

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Ian Goldberg wrote:

> Indeed, that's what Thibaut noticed, and I sent a patch to correct
> already.

Oh, did not realise it was the same issue...

>> I'm looking at providing libotr3 and libotr packages, as I don't think
>> all the apps will port their code to the new library in reasonable time.
>
> Why "libotr3"?  It's version 4 of the library, and the soname is 5.  On
> Debian-like systems, the old package was libotr2, and the new one will
> be libotr5.

The version of the old libotr is 3.x.x, so the compat package would then
become libotr3-3.x. (as to not conflict with libotr-4.x.x)

Paul