Hi! On Fri, 2020-09-11 at 11:04:33 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: src:dpkg > Version: 1.20.5 > Severity: minor
> symbols files with more than one space between the symbol name and the minor > version are rejected. This should either be documented in deb-symbols(5), or > accepted in symbols files. Right, I'll document it in deb-symbols(5). Adding support now would mean that older version would not accept those, and also that the spacing would need to be normalized before comparing the files, which seems suboptimal. > while looking for the documentation, I saw that dpkg-gensymbols(1) refers to > deb-symbols(5) for the format, however comments in symbols files are only > documented in dpkg-gensymbols(1). To avoid this kind of confusion this was moved out to deb-src-symbols(5), I guess you might have checked on an older dpkg version? I'll also add an explicit ref to deb-symbols(5) in the deb-src-symbols(5) to make the format layering more clear. Thanks, Guillem
