Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> Package: glibc >> Version: 2.7-6 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: patch >> >> Please add symbols files to the various libc* packages that provide >> libraries. Since libc6 is sanely versioned I suggest to rely on that >> to avoid maintaining explicit list of symbols (wee wildcards in >> dpkg-gensymbols(1) for explanations). >> >> You'll need the latest dpkg-dev to make use of this however. I'm sure the >> attached patch will need further fine-tuning because I'm not 100% >> confident that I got it right for all arches. >> > > That's a good start, but there is still some work to be done: > - The minimum dependencies on sparc should be 2.6-1 due to the SPARCV8 > to SPARCV8PLUS ABI transition > - The patch uses symbols versioning to determine the minimal Debian > version, but some symbols have been introduced later in Debian, due to > some build options that weren't enabled or availabled on some > architectures. TLS support is such an example. > - As the symbols versioning in dpkg-shlibdeps only takes care of the > symbols and not at the include headers, one has to search for #define or > enum values that have been added, and bump the minimum version of the > corresponding symbols if this value is uses internally in the glibc. >
Also the name of the dynamic linker is wrong on ia64 and amd64, which causes an FTFS. It should be /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 on amd64 and ld-linux-ia64.so.2 on ia64 instead of ld-linux.so.2. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
