Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't really like this idea because sbuild doesn't keep > > environment variables, and I don't really want to patch sbuild every > > time I want to update it instead of using the .deb package directly from > > debian-admin. > > This i

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: > On armel architecture, the symbol differences have usually been > inlined softfloat symbols being exported. Which is additional symbols > and would thus not break symbol checking (if I understood correctly). Yes. > What is more worrying is the lack of uno

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Please read the bug log again. The supplementary symbols are not the same on the different architectures, which causes some architectures to have missing symbols compared to some others. >>> In which case it doesn

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On armel architecture, the symbol differences have usually been inlined softfloat symbols being exported. Which is additional symbols and would thus not break symbol checking (if I understood correctly). What is more worrying is the lack of unofficial arch information in mole. Thus maintainers

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Please read the bug log again. The supplementary symbols are not the > >> same on the different architectures, which causes some architectures to > >> have missing symbols compared to some others. > > > > In which case it doesn't make sense to have a

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> The issue is that some supplementary symbols are exported due to libtool >>> working differently with C++ libs for apparently no good reasons. It is not >>> really armel-specific (except for the fact that armel generated >>>

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > The issue is that some supplementary symbols are exported due to libtool > > working differently with C++ libs for apparently no good reasons. It is not > > really armel-specific (except for the fact that armel generated > > supplementary symbols that

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> Though it's worth asking ourselves if it would make sense to have an >>> intermediary fallback between debian/*.symbols. and debian/*.symbols >>> that >>> would be debian/*.symbols.. >> While it will fixes the problem due t

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Though it's worth asking ourselves if it would make sense to have an > > intermediary fallback between debian/*.symbols. and debian/*.symbols > > that > > would be debian/*.symbols.. > > While it will fixes the problem due to the variation of the ABI

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Note that this is a case where the API is supposed to be stable across >> architectures... can you show me what the differences are and why they are >> legitimate? >> >> Please show me the build-failure. > > FTR, here's the

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give you the right to >> ignore the problem as you did until now. > > We've had only one unconclusive IRC discussion, that's not really ignoring > the problem. And I still bel

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Note that this is a case where the API is supposed to be stable across > architectures... can you show me what the differences are and why they are > legitimate? > > Please show me the build-failure. FTR, here's the relevant output for kfreebsd: dh_ma

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give you the right to > ignore the problem as you did until now. We've had only one unconclusive IRC discussion, that's not really ignoring the problem. And I still believe, you're over exagerating the pr

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > severity 452022 wishlist > thanks > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Package: dpkg-dev >> Version: 1.14.8 >> Severity: serious > > Huh ?! I know it's important for you, but that doesn't make it RC. Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give y

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
severity 452022 wishlist thanks On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.14.8 > Severity: serious Huh ?! I know it's important for you, but that doesn't make it RC. > problem: it potentially breaks all unofficial architectures, as the > symbols for those archit

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.8 Severity: serious Justification: Potentially breaks all unofficial architectures The new dpkg-gensymbols is surely a great thing that will help the release a lot, but it has been pushed into unstable with a *known* problem: it potentially breaks all unofficial arc