Jakub Wilk <uba...@users.sf.net> writes: > dpkg-dev 1.15.3 introduced the following change:
> * Support tags before symbols in symbols file contained in source > packages. The first two tags are "optional" (use it to not fail if > the symbol might disappear from the library without breaking the > ABI) and "arch" to restrict the set of architectures where the > symbol is supposed to exist. Thanks to Modestas Vainius > <modes...@vainius.eu> for the patch. See dpkg-gensymbols(1) for > more information. Closes: #521551 > lintian should warn if symbol file contains tags but the package does > not build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.3~). The tricky part of implementing this is that currently all of Lintian's analysis of symbol files is based on the binary package, and by that point dpkg-gensymbols has already analyzed and removed the tags. Finding the symbol files in the source package is a bit trickier since they can be assembled on the fly if the package wishes to, and it would mean parsing them again. What happens if a package with a symbol file using tags is built with an old version of dpkg-dev? Does the tag end up in the installed symbol file as if it were a symbol? If so, Lintian could detect that fairly easily and warn about that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
