11.03.2015, 11:21, Sébastien Villemot kirjoitti: >> As a wishlist item, the package could benefit from getting a >> ..symbols file added. >> >> (this was suggested at https://launchpad.net/bugs/1427677) > > double-conversion is a C++ library, and maintaining symbols files is > usually very tedious for C++ libraries (as acknowledged by Debian Policy > in §8.6.4).
I agree, although the pkgkde-symbolshelper from pkg-kde-tools does help with handling and updating symbols even with complex C++ libraries, as used in for example the Qt 5 packages. > Given that the library is small, that may be manageable though. But it's > not clear to me what are the benefits over the shlibs system here; the > library does not change very often and has few reverse dependencies. It's a downstream policy to ask for symbols files for the officially supported packages, so I forwarded it to Debian. But in case of double-conversion there might be little benefit indeed. Double-conversion now has a new reverse dependency of qtdeclarative-opensource-src (the version in experimental) which prompted this bug. It's ok to close it as "ack, but not needed", or just keep it open as a wishlist item for now. -Timo
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