Control: block -1 by 811445

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 04:19:31PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2018-09-14 14:41:03, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > Control: severity 772479 grave
> >
> > I've got these packages installed:
> >
> > ii  irssi             1.1.1-1      amd64    terminal based IRC client
> > ii  irssi-plugin-xmpp 0.54-2       amd64    XMPP plugin for irssi
> >
> > and if i launch a new irssi installation and do:
> >
> >     /load xmpp
> >
> > then it responds with:
> >
> > 13:10 -!- Irssi: xmpp/core is ABI version 7 but Irssi is version 13, cannot 
> > load
> > 13:10 -!- Irssi: Error loading module xmpp/fe: 
> >           /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/irssi/modules/libfe_xmpp.so: undefined 
> >           symbol: xmpp_subscription
> >
> > so irssi-plugin-xmpp does not work at all, rendering this bug report
> > severity grave. :(
> 
> I think this needs a binNMU.
> 
> Alternatively, we could just rebuild to ship what's pending in git and
> do some administrativa. Upstream has no new release but two minor
> bugfixes/commits.

It also needs a proper narrowly versioned dependency.

Running irssi-plugin-otr or irssi-plugin-xmpp from stretch with irssi 
from stretch-backports is likely similarly broken.

The proper solution requires #811445 fixed, otherwise every plugin
has to implement its own dependency generation.

> a.

cu
Adrian

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