Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols
2016-12-02 18:08 GMT+01:00 Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>:
> 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.
dh-acc and abi-compliance-checker might help you maintain your own
soname. Nothing guaranteed, though.
Jérémy
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