On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:11:30PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> > Scott, LaMont, could you subscribe to this bug, and handle it, please?
> > As Michael pointed out in a subsequent e-mail to this bug, it's a
> > failure in the shlibs file. The libblkid 1.x packages do not provide
> > any symbols with the @UUID_1.0 symbol version, and so the shlibs file
> > needs to be adjusted to point this out.
>
> Why is the shlibs.local file needed at all? If the symbols files are updated
> properly, that should be sufficient to generate correct dependencies.
Agreed. At least for e2fsprogs, the shlibs.local file predated my
adding the symbols file, and I never got around to deleting the
shlibs.local file.
> I already talked to Scott and LaMont briefly about this. Imho the
> symbols files should not be updated/generated automatically, but
> manually, so you can actually track ABI breakages much more
> easily. Also, the debian revision should be stripped away (unless a
> symbol was added by a Debian revision specific patch), to make
> e.g. backports easier.
Yes, I agree.
I'll make the change in e2fsprogs for libraries that are still
shipping as part of e2fsprogs, but it's up to Scott and LaMont to make
changes to the util-linux package in experimental.
Thank you for noticing this problem before it was moved to unstable
and/or testing!!
- Ted
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