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

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:35:06PM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> Thibaut VARENE:
> > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm about to upload pidgin-otr 4.0.0 to debian unstable, and it
> >>
> >>
> >> debian already ships libotr-4? Did they add a libotr3 package? Did
> > 
> > libotr5, per soname.
> > 
> >> other OTR software get ported to 4.x already? Or will it just break?
> > 
> > libotr5 has been in experimental for a month now. If packages haven't
> > been updated, they'll break, since libotr5 conflicts with libotr2.
> > They'll need a rebuild against the new library package anyway.

Wait: libotr2 should *not* conflict with libotr5.  The *-dev* packages
should conflict, since they provide conflicting header files, and the
*-bin* packages similarly.  But the runtime libotr2 and libotr5 packages
should be able to coexist, no?  This would certainly prevent breakage of
existing packages.

   - Ian