Bug#786969: pkgkde-symbolshelper batchpatch corrupts symbols file

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Hi Lisandro !

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
<perezmeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> tag 786969 moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi Mathieu!
>
> Can you check the version of dpkg used in the build process?
>
> It might be related to that.

I have the *exact* same output using a jessie or a sid chroot. So in my case:

jessie:

$ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.25
  Candidate: 1.17.25
  Version table:
 *** 1.17.25 0
        700 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


sid:

$ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.18.0
  Candidate: 1.18.0
  Version table:
 *** 1.18.0 0
        500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


IMHO, I suspect the issue lie instead in the merging of symbols
(remember that the first dpkg-gensymbols generated file is ok), so I
suspect:

[...]
pkgkde-symbolshelper: info: ambiguous symbols for subst detection
(_ZNSt6vectorImSaImEE14_M_dlll_lnsertEN9__gnu_cll17__normal_lteratorIPmS1_EEmRKm@Base/libIlmImf.so.6).
[...]

indicate an error instead of just an information. It is hard to give
more details as `pkgkde-symbolshelper` does not seems to be documented
(no man page AFAIK)

Comments ?