On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:53:16AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:37:06AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > and a lintian test needs to be written to make sure this doesn't
> > happen again, and to remind people to recompile sooner rather than
> > later.
> Hmm.. How would we lintian test this, other that checking for every
> symbol that might possibly ever leak? That sounds like a nightmare to
> maintain, since hidden symbols have no guarantee for consistancy.
Checking for every symbol that _has_ ever leaked is the main thing,
so we can get all the broken packages rebuilt. You need that list for
glibc anyway, by the looks.
Cheers,
aj
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