[email protected] wrote: > Hi >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 11:03 PM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [meego-packaging] Send notifications if ABI/API changes >> >> 1. list the symbols exported by your library (current package) >> 2. list the symbols exported by your library (new package) >> 3. compare the symbols and check for ABI breakage >> >> It could be automated and OBS could provide it (see Anas's >> postchecks repository). >> > Postchecks is used check packaing issues with rpmlint. How does this > help any ? Thanks
it ought to be possible to add a "function signature check" (such a tool was developed in the Moblin days), but finding behavioral changes is much harder to automate, that really needs the developers to pay attention and let people know - but that will only catch /intentional/ behavior changes. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
