Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> > The real lib has precedence over the provided symbols file.
> > - any new symbol is added and marked with mininal version being the current
> >   version of the package
> > - a symbol that disappeared is marked as deprecated. Currently it
> >   comments it out in the file like this:
> > #DEPRECATED: 2.5-9#ld-linux.so.2 _dl_out_of_memory@GLIBC_PRIVATE libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13
> 
> symbols MUST NEVER disappear!

Reality is that it happens.

Mike