Hi! On Fri, 2026-01-16 at 09:56:13 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.23.3 > Severity: wishlist
> I've come across several symbols files that use wildcards to match > basically any symbol. Doesn't this make the symbols file kind of moot, > as it will never detect any symbols that got removed and it will > always match any symbols added? No, this is intended to be used for well maintained libraries. See the symver documentation in deb-src-symbols(5). > Could dpkg-gensymbols start erroring if it encounters files like this, > and fail the build to prevent such symbol files from getting into any > release? Given that this was implemented on purpose, not really no. But the "*@..." syntax has been deprecated for a while, so I've instead added a warning to prompt the maintainers to switch to use "(symver|optional)@..." instead. Thanks, Guillem
