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Bug#749202: lintian: Should never suggest symbols files for Objective-C libraries



Chris Lamb wrote:
> Could you provide an example ― ideally currently in the archive ― of
> such a file? I'm not an Objective C expert alas, so having some
> examples would really help here. :)

For a real example, you can take a look at gnustep-base/1.24.9-3.1
(the version in stretch).  gnustep-gui also had .symbols file from
0.25.0-1 until it was removed in 0.25.0-4 but these are avaialable
only from snapshot.d.n.

I can also send a very minimalistic case which I used to persuade my
fellow co-maintainer Eric Heintzmann that symbols files are not only
useless but actually harmful.


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