Re: .symbols or shlibs file

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto <hpfn@ig.com.br>, 2015-11-30, 16:50:
> > That said, I wonder if there's any point in passing -V to 
> > dh_makeshlibs if the package uses symbols. It doesn't seem useful.
>
> The option started to be used in version 2.4.1-1 (2008),
> I believe. From debian/changelog:
>
> * New upstream release (Closes: #480127):
>     - Not bumping shlibs, no new symbol.
>     - To achieve this, use two dh_makeshlibs calls (one for
>       libgphoto2-port0 and one for libgphoto2-$(major), and provide with
>       the last upstream version sharing the same ABI. Using 2.4.0 here
>       although some former versions might have been specified. That
>       shouldn't make any difference from a testing migration point of
>       view.
>
> Do you know when the .symbols file started to be in use ?

Symbol files wasn't very popular in 2008 yet. According to the 
changelog, they were added much later:

| libgphoto2 (2.4.10.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
| [...]
|   [ David Paleino ]
| [...]
|   * Added symbols files
| [...]
|
|  -- David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:19:03 +0100

I suppose -V should have been removed then.

--
Jakub Wilk