On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> This doesn't help, this just makes the symbols a bit more human readable.
> dpkg-gensymbols generates a patch file output that helps to adjust the
> symbols file, why not just use this with a bit of brain?

And a bit of access to architecturesthat I don't have access to (arm64 
for example)

> > Hence, I think the best solution is to remove the symbols file for this 
> > package.
> 
> It took me about a hour to adjust the symbols file so dpkg-gensymbols is
> happy. It's really not that hard!
> The symbols file has an intention and this is to make life easier while
> libraries transiontions e.g.

As far as I understand the symnols files is to track symbol changes due 
to changes in the library itself, not the compiler used to build that 
library !

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