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Re: Debian glibc symbol version stuff



On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 23:44:27 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >       __vm_statistics@Base 2.11
> > >       __vm_wire@Base 2.11
> > >       __vm_write@Base 2.11
> > >     - __xxx_cpu_control@Base 2.11
> 
> I guess this is also due to changes?  Same answer: dropping symbols in a
> lib is something of high importance that symbol lists help to catch.

I'm guessing this and the other similar ones are due to
dd48e23f43730038df4bb191e7acc47a4ab73c69 in gnumach.

> > Now, the question is whether the RPC user stubs should get Debian symbol
> > versioning at all, or if they're simply a best-effort thing?
> 
> Making them a best-effort would mean that some programs using them would
> get broken when they are removed.  We don't really want that :)

Given the above, that would mean we can never remove RPCs from
gnumach? That seems a bit tough.

regards,
guillem


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