[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#525782: marked as done (lintian: warn about "#MISSING: ..." in symbols files)

Your message dated Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:22:05 -0700
with message-id <878wgfa2gy.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Re: lintian: warn about "#MISSING: ..." in symbols files
has caused the Debian Bug report #525782,
regarding lintian: warn about "#MISSING: ..." in symbols files
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org
immediately.)


-- 
525782: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525782
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.9
Severity: wishlist

Please warn about symbols files containing #MISSING: ...

These lines indicate some symbols have disappeared in newer versions of
a library. The removed symbols might have been private symbols that have
been hidden or they were public symbols that have been removed. Private
symbols should be removed from the symbols file. Removed symbols means
an ABI breakage and that version should not be packaged without
reintroducing the symbols or bumping the SONAME/etc. Another alternative
is that the symbols were introduced in a release candidate and removed
in the final release, I guess the symbols should be removed. Normally
when a symbol disappears the package will FTBFS with a message like the
below. Some people seem to just patch their symbols file with the lines
containing #MISSING instead of dealing with the issue properly and
hopefully a lintian warning would discourage that practice.

dh_makeshlibs
dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some symbols disappeared in the symbols file: see diff output below
dpkg-gensymbols: warning: debian/libicns1/DEBIAN/symbols doesn't match completely debian/libicns1.symbols
--- dpkg-gensymbolskwkdDi	2009-04-27 13:18:21.000000000 +0800
+++ dpkg-gensymbolsnfF9Vl	2009-04-27 13:18:21.000000000 +0800
@@ -19, 7 +19, 7 @@
 icns_import_family_data@Base 0.5.7
 icns_init_image@Base 0.5.7
 icns_init_image_for_type@Base 0.5.7
- icns_jp2_to_image@Base 0.5.7
+#MISSING: 0.5.9-1.1# icns_jp2_to_image@Base 0.5.7
 icns_new_element_from_image@Base 0.5.7
 icns_new_element_from_mask@Base 0.5.7
 icns_read_family_from_file@Base 0.5.7
dh_makeshlibs: command returned error code 256

Here are some examples of that on lenny:

$ grep MISSING /var/lib/dpkg/info/*symbols 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.1# os_tab@Base 1.37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.1# crc16@Base 1.41.0
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.1# crc16_table@Base 1.41.0
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.0# ext2fs_swap_ext_attr@Base 1.37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.0# ext2fs_swap_group_desc@Base 1.37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.0# ext2fs_swap_inode@Base 1.37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.0# ext2fs_swap_inode_full@Base 1.37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.0# ext2fs_swap_super@Base 1.37
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libblkid1.symbols:#MISSING: 1.41.1# blkid_devdirs@Base 1.34
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libblkid1.symbols:#MISSING: 1.40.7# check_for_modules@Base 1.40.6
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libblkid1.symbols:#MISSING: 1.40.7# fs_proc_check@Base 1.40.6
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_connection_failed@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_connection_failed_with_error@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_connection_succeeded@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_message_handler_handle_message@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_message_new_from_node@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_message_node_add_child_node@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_message_node_new@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_message_sub_type_to_string@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_message_type_to_string@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_proxy_connect_cb@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_sock_addrinfo_get_error_str@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_sock_get_error_str@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_sock_get_local_host@Base 1.2.3-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_sock_library_shutdown@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_base_free_fields@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_base_init@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_begin@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_close@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_free@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_func_always_continue@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_initialize@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_new@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_read@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_ssl_send@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_utils_base64_encode@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libloudmouth1-0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.3.3-1# _lm_utils_generate_id@Base 1.1.4-2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libogg0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.1.0# oggpack_adv_huff@Base 1.0rc3
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libogg0.symbols:#MISSING: 1.1.0# oggpack_look_huff@Base 1.0rc3

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
The dpkg-gensymbols maintainer didn't agree that Lintian should warn about
this, since the package maintainer may want to keep these as a record of
changes to the symbols.  dpkg-gensymbols has since been patched to strip
these lines out of the installed symbols file.

I'm closing this bug based on the discussion in the bug, but do feel free
to reply if you disagree with the conclusions.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

--- End Message ---
Reply to: