On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> (22/07/2009): > > Yes. Check "man dpkg-gensymbols" and see how some nice tools > > […propaganda…] > > FSVO “nice”. #536034.
Mistakes happen, that doesn't change anything concerning the usefulness of the tool. > In case a maintainer of a shared lib never did this, I strongly advise > playing around with a simple combo of diff, find, and nm, in order to > have a look at what symbols are becoming between two releases. Why is that better than comparing both symbols files and having the build actually fail if a symbol is removed? Using nm/find/diff is more complicated and I don't see a clear advantage to it. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
