On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 05:00:10PM +0200, Thomas Uhle wrote: > 2. dh_girepository does not fetch the 41 symbols from HarfBuzz-0.0.gir > that are compiled into libharfbuzz-gobject.so.0. I have attached a > small patch for it, so that the missing symbols are also dumped into > the dummy C file that is temporarily generated and compiled for > dh_shlibdeps. > This updated version of dh_girepository would also find another 245 > symbols in Gio-2.0.gir for instance. ---end quoted text--- But why doesn't this bug show itself on sparc64 arch ? Both gir1.2-harfbuzz and gir1.2-freedesktop depend on their respective library packages on sparc64 archs only.
This is because --as-needed is passed as linker flag since debhelper 13 which is not working on sparc architectures. So the temporarily generated dummy library would link to libharfbuzz-gobject.so.0 on sparc64 although it would not use any of its symbols. You can see this from the minimal version that is annotated to libharfbuzz-gobject0 for instance which is 0.9.20 (with unpatched dh_girepository). That is the lowest version number in libharfbuzz-gobject0.symbols. But correct would have been 5.1.0 which is the minimal version you get with the patched dh_girepository because of hb_gobject_draw_funcs_get_type() which was introduzed in harfbuzz 4.0.0. So version 5.1.0-1 was the very first version in Debian with that symbol.
Best regards, Thomas Uhle
