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

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:33:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> >>So 7 clients use it, so I am not going to assume all of these can fix
> >>their code within a few days.
> >
> >Indeed not.  They can continue to depend on the old version of libotr.
> >(Your libotr3 package, if I understand it?  But does that mean you have
> >to change all of the above packages to explicitly name libotr3?  If I
> >understand the Debian/Ubuntu method correctly, the package name has been
> >libotr2 all along, and all those other programs name libotr2 as their
> >dependency.  The new package will be libotr5, and programs that update
> >their use of libotr can then switch their dependency to libotr5.)
> 
> Yes, I will send patches to the maintainers of these to change their
> Require: libotr to Require: libotr < 4. The libotr3 package will supply
> libotr < 4, while the libotr package will supply libotr >= 4.

Since they're using the libotr 3 API, shouldn't they require libotr ==
3?  And the new libotr package will supply libotr == 4, and the new
pidgin-otr package will require libotr == 4?  (As opposed to >= 4?)

> As I am the pidgin-otr maintainer, I am going to ensure it is released
> as an update at the same time as libotr gets bumped to 4.

Perfect, thanks!

   - Ian