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Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols



On 02/12/16 16:36, lumin wrote:
Hi mentors,

I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when
the mangled C++ symbols are unstable.

I'm maintaining a package named "Caffe". I migrated the same
source from experimental to unstable, and it FTBFS'ed as you
see at [0], due to the mangled C++ symbols change. Actually
this package FTBFS'ed many times in the history due to
symbols change. (I have no e.g. ppc64el machine, hence
unable to test before upload)

Stopping you right there. Maintaining C++ symbols is notoriously painful, and I was advised back in my early packaging days to just avoid it.

Perhaps things have changed since, and other people might disagree.

Ghis


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