Re: .symbols or shlibs file

[Herbert Fortes (hpfn) <hpfn@ig.com.br>]

Hi Jakub,

> * 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.
>

Ok, I will do that.

Thanks to look at that.


regards,
-- 
Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)