Thanks for the bug report and both of your comments. The number of times I've had to re-upload this package due to symbol issues is really getting excessive, it seems.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:12 AM Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > Le 09/06/2020 09:59, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=cegui-mk2 > > > > > > ... > > > dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some new symbols appeared in the symbols > > > file: see diff output below > > > dpkg-gensymbols: error: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the > > > symbols file: see diff output below > > > dpkg-gensymbols: warning: debian/libcegui-mk2-0.8.7/DEBIAN/symbols > > > doesn't match completely debian/libcegui-mk2-0.8.7.symbols > > > > [...] > > > > > Fix: > > > > I wonder if the real fix shouldn't be for cegui-mk2 to stop exporting a > pile > > of Boost symbols... > I would love that. Any advice on a reasonably easy/straightforward way of doing that? If it makes the long-term maintenance of this package easier I'm very amenable to hearing any suggestions! > I wonder if the real fix shouldn't be to stop providing symbols files > for C++ libraries... > > Symbols files for C libraries are straightforward, > symbols files for C++ libraries are a mess. > Ha! Truth. They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Here's an example. I wanted to include a symbols file to help with fine-grained dependency resolution. You know, the reason we have those files. Trying to do my part to keep our whole ecosystem working smoothly. But this has been so much of a headache (both with this package and a couple other C++ libraries I maintain) that I'm considering just erasing all the symbols files and being done with it. Any advice on this? I really want to do what's "right" and what's best for this package and the greater Debian infrastructure but I wonder if insisting on shipping symbols files is actually doing more harm than good. (e.g. I'm sure the buildds don't appreciate the extra load...) -Olek
