Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Mike Hommey (mh@glandium.org) [070607 17:49]:
> 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.

Reality is that this build must fail with a proper warning, so that the
maintainer can decide if this is an excption and ok or whether he should
cluebat upstream about a what soname means.


Cheers,
Andi
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