Using symbols files

2008-01-14 Thread David Paleino
Hi all, one of my packages, libopenraw, has just been uploaded to NEW. My sponsor (lucab, thanks Luca!) noted that I should've read [1] and [2], to write proper symbols files. Unfortunately, I've not been able to fully understand how to implement this. Can anyone give some help? That would be appr

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
David Paleino wrote: > Hi all, > one of my packages, libopenraw, has just been uploaded to NEW. My sponsor > (lucab, thanks Luca!) noted that I should've read [1] and [2], to write proper > symbols files. > Unfortunately, I've not been able to fully understand how to implement this. > > Can anyon

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:40:37 -0300 Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > > Hi all, > > one of my packages, libopenraw, has just been uploaded to NEW. My sponsor > > (lucab, thanks Luca!) noted that I should've read [1] and [2], to write > > proper > > symbols files

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > supported upstream via versioned symbols. Can you please argument this? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:35 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > > supported upstream via versioned symbols. > > Can you please argument this? (You omitted the rest

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:35 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > > > supported upstream via versi

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:35 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > > > supported upstream via versio

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 12:50 +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:35 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Instead, the maintainer needs to work with

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:28:46AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 12:50 +, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Right, as you say the problems here are nothing to do with symbols > > files or symbol versioning. A poorly

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure zlib is a good example - when I built the current sources > (which contained the symbols file), I got a lot of lintian warnings > about the symbols. The zlib symbol file warnings are because the current versioning wouldn't work well with ba

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:47:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > the symbols file. (My recommendation would be to drop the Debian revision > on all the versions in the symbols file for zlib1g, on the grounds that > the introduction of new symbols was an upstream change so any package of, JFTR thi

Using symbols files for C++ libraries?

2009-10-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
Is there a way to do that without going insane? Some sort of wildcards or shortcuts to the mangled symbols would be great (specially since it seems the mangling is different on different archs). -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Using symbols files for C++ libraries?

2009-10-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Friday 16,October,2009 10:54 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Is there a way to do that without going insane? Some sort of wildcards > or shortcuts to the mangled symbols would be great (specially since it > seems the mangling is different on different archs). > I agree with this. Packaging sigx nea