Hello, I'm looking for someone to take over the maintenance of the mole worker that generates symbols files, example: http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols?pkgname=libx11-6
It's not much code and it's all in the qa SVN but it requires a better place to run (currently it runs on alioth:~hertzog/mole/). Doing it on merkel within the qa team (with the rest of the mole stuff) is certainly a good option. It requires installation of binutils-multiarch but otherwise should run on lenny. Most of the work is just ensuring that it keeps running/working. http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/qa/trunk/mole/worker/ (all symbols* files) Sometimes it needs an update to keep up with mole changes but it's fairly low maintainance and Christoph Berg has always been helpful to fix things up when needed. You should also deal with related bug reports submitted against qa.debian.org but they are relatively rare. I just opened one since Julien Cristau reported me a problem: http://bugs.debian.org/541776 There are new features in symbols files that it would be interesting to exploit, in particular the arch restriction tagging feature[1]. It would require some coding but generating a single symbols file that works for all architectures would be a nice feature, isn't it? I will of course respond to any question that you might have since I really want to give this project to someone else. Cheers, [1] If you don't know what it is, check man dpkg-gensymbols, you can have stuff like that in symbols files now: (arch=alpha amd64 kfreebsd-amd64 ia64)a_64bit_specific_sym...@base 1.0 (arch=!armel)symbol_armel_does_not_h...@base 1.0 -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
