On 2011-09-24 10:16 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > If a symbol is removed in a later version > (and the soname is not bumped, due to a mistake), the above method will > result in a library that, when installed, will break any app using the > old, removed symbol. Erm, this will also happen if you don't have symbols files. In fact, using symbols files together with "dpkg-gensymbols -c4" catches this kind of mistake. Sven