Christoph Martin: > Hi > > Am 18.05.2017 um 20:52 schrieb Niels Thykier: >> >> Unblocked, thanks. >> >> For future uploads, please avoid updating the versions on all symbols in >> the symbols files when they haven't changed (as it causes an unnecessary >> strict dependency from reverse dependencies and unnecessary changes for >> us to review) >> > > I updated the symbols file because lintian displayed an error about it. > Should I just have kept the old file? > > Christoph >
My argument was that the version in the symbols file is used by dpkg to determine versioned dependencies on your package. If you always bump the versions on all symbols in the symbols file, you basically reduce it to a very long shlibs file (and we lose the benefit of having a symbols file in the first place). I don't know what lintian warning/error it was, so I cannot say whether you should have kept the old file or not. That said, as with all static analysis tools, you cannot trust it blindly. Thanks, ~Niels
