On 2012-01-26, Thomas Weber <twe...@debian.org> wrote: > I'm currently creating symbol files for Octave in Debian. And quite > frankly, the way symbol files for C++ libraries are handled and > (especially) documented is totally frustrating. > > There's exactly zero precise documentation on how to maintain symbol > files there. When the topic is brought up on mailing list, people point > at some tools from the KDE packages, but still there's no documentation > on the problem itself. The best example is dpkg-gensymbols(1) itself:
did you read the link I posted? That's currently the best docs we have for pkgkde-symbolshelper. Better docs is always a nice thing to have. Please help improve it. > Yeah, great. Which instantiations cannot be marked as optional and how > do I recognize them? And if it's actually impossible to maintain symbol > files for C++ libraries (as Florian Weimer has claimed in this thread), > why doesn't the manpage just say so? It is not at all impossible to maintain symbol files for c++ libraries. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnji3pji.p7v.nos...@sshway.ssh.pusling.com
