Re: Find all consumers of private symbols
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 02:06:44PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 31.01.2017 um 13:31 schrieb Benjamin Drung:
> > Hi,
> >
> > libibverbs provides symbols for their public library API and internal
> > symbols for their plugins libraries. Sadly the internal symbols are
> > exposed in libibverbs. Upstream wants to make these symbols private,
> > but without bumping the soname.
> >
> > The rdma-core source package will ship libibverbs and all library
> > plugins. So this source package can ensure that no incompatible
> > combination of the library and the plugins is installed. Now my
> > question: How can I check if there are packages in Debian that consume
> > these internal symbols?
>
> https://codesearch.debian.net
>
> Aside from that, you can can test-build all reverse dependencies of
> libibverbs. (apt-cache rdepends, reverse-build-depends from
> ubuntu-dev-tools)
ratt is also useful for auto-building reverse build-deps (if you use
sbuild).
Cheers,
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James
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