Control: tags 767659 + patch
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 at 10:33:42 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If the new symbol is public API that (in principle) other packages could
> use, which AFAICS it is, then I think the only solution that doesn't
> involve bumping shlibs for everyone is a symbols file.
The attached seems to work as desired: libpoppler-glib8 ends up with a
dependency on libpoppler46 (>= 0.26.5-2~), but libpoppler-qt4-4
(which presumably doesn't use GfxFont::getAlternateName)
still depends on libpoppler46 (>= 0.26.5).
Regards,
S
diffstat for poppler-0.26.5 poppler-0.26.5
changelog | 9 +++++++++
libpoppler46.symbols.in | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff -Nru poppler-0.26.5/debian/changelog poppler-0.26.5/debian/changelog
--- poppler-0.26.5/debian/changelog 2014-10-19 17:24:18.000000000 +0100
+++ poppler-0.26.5/debian/changelog 2014-11-15 21:28:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+poppler (0.26.5-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * GfxFont::getAlternateName(char const*) was new in 0.26.5-2~;
+ add a symbols file so that anything using that symbol gets the
+ appropriate versioned dependency. (Closes: #767659)
+
+ -- Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:07:14 +0000
+
poppler (0.26.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Backport upstream commit 01723aa17e836e818158dbdc56df642a290be300 to map
diff -Nru poppler-0.26.5/debian/libpoppler46.symbols.in poppler-0.26.5/debian/libpoppler46.symbols.in
--- poppler-0.26.5/debian/libpoppler46.symbols.in 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ poppler-0.26.5/debian/libpoppler46.symbols.in 2014-11-15 21:28:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+libpoppler.so.46 libpoppler46 #MINVER#
+* Build-Depends-Package: libpoppler-dev
+ (c++)"GfxFont::getAlternateName(char const*)@Base" 0.26.5-2~
+ (regex)".*" #CURVER#
