Re: Help needed with symbols index in package

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Eriberto Mota <eriberto@debian.org>, 2016-01-06, 21:28:
> dpkg-gensymbols: warning: debian/libkpmcore1/DEBIAN/symbols doesn't
> match completely debian/libkpmcore1.symbols
> --- debian/libkpmcore1.symbols (libkpmcore1_1.9.50-1_amd64)
> +++ dpkg-gensymbolsBiEPCo       2016-01-06 20:58:15.171645367 -0200
> @@ -1195,3 +1195,23 @@
>  _ZZZNK27SetFileSystemLabelOperation8iconNameEvENKUlvE_clEvE15qstring_literal@Base
> 1.9.50
>  _ZZZNK29CreatePartitionTableOperation8iconNameEvENKUlvE_clEvE15qstring_literal@Base
> 1.9.50
>  _ZlsR11QTextStreamRK14PartitionTable@Base 1.9.50
> +libpmdummybackendplugin.so libkpmcore1 #MINVER#
> + _ZTI17CoreBackendDevice@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTI20CoreBackendPartition@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTI25CoreBackendPartitionTable@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTS17CoreBackendDevice@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTS20CoreBackendPartition@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTS25CoreBackendPartitionTable@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTV17CoreBackendDevice@Base 1.9.50-1
> + qt_plugin_instance@Base 1.9.50-1
> + qt_plugin_query_metadata@Base 1.9.50-1
> +libpmlibpartedbackendplugin.so libkpmcore1 #MINVER#
> + _ZTI17CoreBackendDevice@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTI20CoreBackendPartition@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTI25CoreBackendPartitionTable@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTS17CoreBackendDevice@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTS20CoreBackendPartition@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTS25CoreBackendPartitionTable@Base 1.9.50-1
> + _ZTV17CoreBackendDevice@Base 1.9.50-1
> + qt_plugin_instance@Base 1.9.50-1
> + qt_plugin_query_metadata@Base 1.9.50-1

These aren't public shared libraries, are they?
If they're not, then you've just run into debhelper bug #205142 (and 
probably also #653640).

There's a simple work-around: pass -X (with appropriate argument) to 
dh_makeshlibs.

> export PVER=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field version | cut -d"-" -f1)
>
> %:
>         dh $@
>
> override_dh_makeshlibs:
>         dh_makeshlibs -- -v$(PVER)

No, please don't do this.


Unrelated to Jonathan's original question, but I noticed this in the 
Lintian override file:

# For small packages, it is preferable to not have a shared library in a
# seperate binary package:
libkpmcore1: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink

This is serious policy violation. The shlib symlink must not be in the 
shared library package. Size of the package is irrelevant here.

(Also, typo: seperate -> separate. :-P)

--
Jakub Wilk