Cyril Brulebois writes:
> Russ Allbery (13/01/2012):
>> Yes, but there was some discussion in the Policy bug asking why shlibs
>> files were required when they're not used if a symbols file is present,
>> and while I originally argued that keeping them both made sense, I came
>> around to that p
Russ Allbery (13/01/2012):
> Yes, but there was some discussion in the Policy bug asking why shlibs
> files were required when they're not used if a symbols file is present,
> and while I originally argued that keeping them both made sense, I came
> around to that position after reviewing the bug
Charles Plessy writes:
> here are some comments about the current patch. I agree with the other
> changes made subsequently in that thread.
>> + If a package contains a binary or library which links to a
>> + shared library, we must ensure that, when the package is
>> + installed
Dear Russ and Raphaël,
here are some comments about the current patch. I agree with the other changes
made subsequently in that thread.
> + If a package contains a binary or library which links to a
> + shared library, we must ensure that, when the package is
> + installed on
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> I think this description adapted from the deb-symbols(5) manual page
> mislead you into thinking that there were leading spaces before | or *
> when in fact there are none.
> I have updated the manual page to make it look like this now:
> library-soname main-dependency
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> There is no leading space before the "*". Just like "|" it must be on
> the first column to differentiate with symbol definitions which do have
> a leading space on their lines.
Oh, then deb-symbols(5) is wrong for both * and |... oh, I see, I was
misreading how the syn
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> +
> +
> +library-soname main-dependency-template
> +[ | alternative-dependency-template ]
> +[ ... ]
> +[ * field-name: field-value ]
> +[ ... ]
> + symbol minimal-version[
> id-of-dependency-template ]
> +
I think this descripti
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >>For our example, the zlib1g symbols file
> >>would contain:
> >>
> >> * Build-Depends-Package: zlib1g-dev
> >>
> >>(Don't forget the leading space.)
>
> > What leading space are you referring to ?
>
> I now have
Russ Allbery writes:
> I tried sending a unified diff, but the new sections are largely
> unreadable since they're intermixed with the old sections being removed.
> Hence, for review purposes, here are the symbols and shlibs sections in
> their entirety, followed by a diff for the changes elsewhe
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> [...]
>>
>>shlibs files were the original mechanism for
>>handling library dependencies. They are documented
>>in . symbols files,
>>documented in this section, are recommended for most pa
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