On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: > afaiu the rationale for having symbols files was to get smoother > dependency information for shared libraries. This still can be done > with the wildcard approach. The check of dropped symbols could be done > by maintaining a database of symbol files for each package separate of > the package, and then check if a new upload drops symbols from a > shared library.
An external check is not interesting as it wouldn't prevent an upload of a bad package. But I can live with the lack of such a check given the premise that a library with versioning probably has a sane upstream. :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
