[Pkg-silc-devel] Bug#476177: Bug 476177

[Jacob Winther]

Hi again,

I have found the issue :)

The upstream put a symlink between
/usr/lib/irssi/modules/libfe_common_silc.so and
/usr/lib/irssi/modules/libfe_silc.so tosupport old clients that did
not look for libfe_common_silc.so.

The issue for debian is the the version of irssi in use loads both
libs. The fix for me was to just rm libfe_silc.so, and this has been
tested by a few people.

This fix is now considered redundant, and is also not an issue in
newer versions of irssi. The recommendation is to remove the symlink
creation. For debian, this is the problem:

if SILCPLUGIN
install-data-hook: libfe_common_silc.la
        -ln -s libfe_common_silc.so $(DESTDIR)$(moduledir)/libfe_silc.so

in this file:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-silc/silc-client/trunk/apps/irssi/src/fe-common/silc/Makefile.am?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

I'm no Mikefile expert, but I assume the fix is to remove the second line.

I hope this is all you need to fix the issue in lenny, please let me
know if you need any more info.

this is where the issue was discussed, however its still not fixed upstream.

https://lists.silcnet.org/pipermail/silc-devel/2008-March/002070.html

Cheers,
Jacob



On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Jérémy Bobbio <lunar at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:31:33PM +1200, Jacob Winther wrote:
> > There has been a bug in the irssi-plugin-silc package for a few months that
> > I was hoping would be fixed for lenny. Do you know if a fix is in the works,
> > or do you have any pointers that may enable me to find the bug?
>
> I have been busy getting the debian-installer in shape for Lenny and
> thus I did not have time to look up this issue.  If the fix is simple
> enough, there is a good chance we could get it in Lenny but we would
> need someone to work on such fix.  If you want to look it up, that would
> be great! :)
>
> Upstream is often quite responsive on the "silc" channel of SILCnet.
> Maybe you could find help there…
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`.
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