[Bug 1075016] [NEW] libotr: Please reintroduce libotr2

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Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/692327:

Package: libotr, release.debian.org
Severity: serious
User: release.debian.org at 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.

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:

* bitlbee
* irssi-plugin-otr
* kdenetwork
* mcabber
* psi-plus
* python-otr

Please do something to resolve this. Input from release team is highly
welcome.

Possibilities I can think of are:
* revert libotr source package to 3.2.1-1 & upload libotr5 (4.0.0-2) source package
* keep libotr source package as it is, upload libotr2 (3.2.1-1) source package
* provide patches/NMUs to fix FTBFS for above packages when built
  against libotr5-dev.

Usually disruptive uploads like this one, should be co-ordinated with
the release team with a transition bug, and staged in experimental to do
test rebuilds.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

** Affects: libotr (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: libotr (Debian)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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libotr: Please reintroduce libotr2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075016
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