On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 07:19:09PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 06:46 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> >> Hmm, shouldn't we use symbol files so dependencies only get bumped when
> >> there are actually new symbols and only when they get used?
> >
> > I was thinking the same today. The "tricky" part is that dpkg-gensymbols
> > will only generate *.symbols files with version 7.23.1 (or whatever is the
> > latest package version when it is run) for all the symbols (unless versions
> > are specified manually for the single symbols) making it not much effective
> > as of now (also, libcurl3-nss must have 7.23.1 anyway because of the change
> > in the 7.23.1-1 upload).
> >
> > On the other hand, once properly done, it would most probably avoid mistakes
> > like the one that caused this bug report, since the process will be mostly
> > automatically executed by dpkg-gensymbols.
>
> Right, so it seems it's a good time to start?
Well, yes. It will require some time if done properly though (also, I cannot
allocate much time for this before wednesday). Would uploading 7.23.1-3 as
it is now and 7.23.1-4 with the *.symbols when it'll be ready make sense?
Cheers
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