* Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>, 2016-07-18, 11:53:
Symbols files are usually better since you get more fine grainedcontrol of dependencies, but they take a lot more time to maintain (especially for C++ libraries).In this very specific case, I think we don't need it, as I explained here [1] and you can see how upstream is taking seriously the ABI now [2]
I don't see what upstream dedication to ABI compatibility has to to with symbol files.
Anyway, the reason we're having this thread is because apparently libjsoncpp broke ABI without SONAME change, so maybe they're not taking it seriously enough. :>
-- Jakub Wilk