I think we have gotten better at this, but it seems pointless to constantly keep a bug open here. When we add a new symbol it is usually not used by anything and it will eventually get added to the file.
If there are any specific instances where packages use new symbols we do not declare, file a bug about these specific issues. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1275787 Title: apt does not declare all the symbols, others get auto-added with the most current version Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: (You can disregard the old version in this, that's just due to my environment. It also applies to the current version in precise.) It seems that apt does not declare all the symbols it exports and does not fail on symbol file mismatches. Hence the new symbols are automatically added with the most current version used at time of build, even if they were already available previously. This means that if you fork apt on your system, you need to needlessly rebuild python- apt whenever it depends on a newer version in the base distribution. The obvious fix is to add all the symbols and fail whenever there is a mismatch and new ones popped up. 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