Re: Adding symbols files to the tango package.
* Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> [110801 11:15]:
> Indeed symbol ordering may vary, but also there is no reason for dpkg-gensymbols
> to guarantee a particular ordering. Although dpkg-gensymbols produces a diff,
> this is surely not meant for you to apply directly as a patch: each change
> requires proper manual inspection to understand whether this is an intended
> change. The symbols file is not to be understood as a mere documentation/dumb
> list, rather it is a contract: as a package maintainer you guarantee that the
> listed symbols are provided.
And that they did not change their meaning. For example if some function
now extends functionality by giving meaning to an additional value
(for example in an enum), then the version of the corresponding symbol
has to be updated manually. dpkg-gensymbols cannot determine that,
it can only see if symbols were added or removed,
not if anything behind them changed.
Bernhard R. Link
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