Bug#525782: lintian: warn about #MISSING: ... in symbols files

2009-04-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
clone 525782 -1 reassign -1 dpkg-dev retitle -1 dpkg-gensymbols should strip #MISSING lines in symbols files in .deb thanks On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Please warn about symbols files containing #MISSING: ... It's not clear to me that they have to be stripped. They represent useful

Bug#525782: lintian: warn about #MISSING: ... in symbols files

2009-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.9 Severity: wishlist Please warn about symbols files containing #MISSING: ... These lines indicate some symbols have disappeared in newer versions of a library. The removed symbols might have been private symbols that have been hidden or they were public symbols