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Re: advise needed for library packaging



* Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> [081229 01:01]:
> I would suggest adding a .symbols file for the new ABI so you can
> detect ABI breakage in newer upstream versions.

s/so you can detect/so dpkg-gensymbols can warn in case of some easy to detect /

Before someone thinks that a symbols file suffices to check for ABI
breakage....
After all it can only check the most notorious ones, manual work is
still needed to be sure...

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link
-- 
"Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools are available!"
	Niklaus Wirth


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