Hi,

On 2020-08-29 00:47, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Source: zimlib
> Version: 6.2.0-2
> Severity: serious
> tags: patch
> 
> Hello, zimlib symbols file seems to be really difficult to maintain, breaking 
> on each icu upload, each new gcc upload,
> different gcc optimization levels (such as -O2 and -O3) and so on.
> 
> Somebody thinks that symbols files for c++ applications are a waste of time, 
> but I'm sending you another patch that fixes the issue for now, by adding 
> some symbols, and marking some other as optional
> https://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles

Yeah, this all seems like an exercise in futility at this point. I see
very little benefit in continuing to maintain the symbols file given
that all of the dependent packages are usually updated lockstep and are
managed by the same upstreams.

Any objections to me dropping the symbols file?

-- Kunal

P.S. Thanks for all your work and help in getting libzim/libkiwix to
exist properly in Ubuntu.

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