Control: retitle -1 libgcc1: Can switch to use new Allow-Internal-Symbol-Groups for aeabi symbols
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 20:49:30 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: libgcc1 > Version: 1:4.8.2-13 > Severity: wishlist > > With dpkg-dev 1.17.6, there's a new symbols file field named > Ignore-Blacklist-Groups that can be used by the toolchain packages to > ignore the entire blacklist group for the aeabi symbols, which are now > blacklisted by regex instead of by an explicit list. This means that > dpkg-dev will automatically blacklist new introduced symbols w/o > having them leak into other package symbol files or having them FTBFS, > and needing to add them manually to dpkg-dev and libgcc1.symbols.aeabi. > > But to make gcc unconditionally include unknown aeabi symbols the > ignore-blacklist tag is not enough, instead the new field can be used > which disables the entire regex for that group. Adding something like: > > ,--- > * Ignore-Blacklist-Groups: aeabi > `--- > > at the top of libgcc1.symbols.aeabi should do the trick. You can then > remove the ignore-blacklist tag if you want, or I guess you could keep > it to avoid having to Build-Depend on a newer dpkg-dev. I've deprecated the Ignore-Blacklist-Groups in dpkg 1.20.1, and Allow-Internal-Symbol-Groups should be used instead. Thanks, Guillem
