Hi Jérémy, On lun. 15 sept. 2025 17:35:26, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > > following a remark done by someone during t64 transition, > I wonder if abigail-tools could be a better way to track symbols changes ? > > A package maintainer can use it like dpkg-gensymbols, except the format is > XML, > and it seems to be able to deal better with C++ changes. > > Anyone knows if that's a reliable tool for that purpose ?
I have often wondered about doing something like this, as I think abigail would be great at detecting ABI breaks. I *think* it is used in Fedora. However, symbols files are also used for another purpose: generating versioned dependencies when you start depending on a newer symbol. In order to replace gensymbols, you'd want to make sure it could also do that. Cheers, Simon
