Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > since the upload of dpkg 1.14.8 to unstable, it's now possible for > library packages to generate "symbols" control files that will be used > by other packages to get more accurate (and less strict) dependencies. > > As this is a far reaching change, I'd like some skilled maintainers to > try it out "for real" and help me flesh out some generic guidelines so > that when we start using it on more packages, we do it right from the > first time. > > The wiki page http://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles will be used to > collect various remarks and prepare some useful documentation that will > be later spread to maintainers through d-d-a (and maybe merged back in > some dpkg manual page).
Hi Raphael, I'll give this a try for libremctl1. It seems like a good candidate for a test of something that's still fairly experimental: there are currently no reverse-depends in Debian, it's a small library, it's already using symbol versioning, and I'm also upstream. > Some pre-generated symbols files can be downloaded on > http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols/ This is awesome. Thank you very much for doing this. It makes it much easier to start. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
