Re: Please advice about symbols versioning (was Re: How to close bug #620550?

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* KURASHIKI Satoru <lurdan@gmail.com>, 2011-08-11, 08:44:
> > I want to make libqdbm14 dropping gdbm emulation, and add a new 
> > exclusive libqdbm14-gdbm package to provide compatibility for people 
> > who uses its gdbm emulation. But, I have trouble with packaging to 
> > satisfy dpkg-gensymbols, and stop packaging there...
>
> cf. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620550
>
> Current version of libqdbm14 (1.8.77-4) has gdbm emulation,
> and it will be dropped as,
>
> 1) libqdbm14 -> libqdbm15      (w/o gdbm emulation)
>                 libqdbm14-gdbm (w/ gdbm emulation)
> 2) libqdbm14 -> libqdbm14      (w/ gdbm emulation)
>                 libqdbm15-???  (w/o gdbm emulation)
> 3) libqdbm14 -> libqdbm15      (w/o gdbm emulation)
>                 libqdbm15-gdbm (w/ gdbm emulation)

Don't use libqdbm15. Upstream might (and probably will!) use such SONAME 
for their own purposes in the future.

Are there actually any packages in Debian using gdbm symbols provided by 
libqdbm? If there are none, I'd just drop the symbols without changing 
package name or SONAME, and wouldn't bother creating a separate package.

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Jakub Wilk