On Sat, 26 May 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 26 mai 2007 à 21:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > in the list of things that we can do to make it more easy to backport > > packages, there's one important item: have a finer-grained system for > > generating dependencies on shared libraries. The system should have > > historical knowledges of symbols exported by libraries. Then when > > generating dependencies on an given package, it should check which symbols > > are used and what minimal version of the library provided them. > > This is not going to work. Checking that symbols are present in a > version does not guarantee they provide the required ABI.
If the ABI changes, the soname changes. I store the information of symbols for a given soname. So it should work. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
