Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:02:17PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > I was > wondering though if anybody had a better approach to recommend? Simply remove them. They are not needed for proper operation, as the shlibs file works as fallba

Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Henrique, On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > No. When we backport something, we are perfectly capable of backporting > dpkg-dev first. > Crap happens when you need backported debhelper, should whomever did that > backport have neglected to _change_ debhelper to do whate

Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Alternatively, version of dpkg could be lowered and functionality > conditioned on the version of dpkg (thus implementing necessary logic to > support older versions), it would imho be better and more flexible to > please those backport-lovers, savin

Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Christian Kastner wrote: > >> One simple way to resolve this would be to rename the .symbols file > >> during build and again during clean (or similar approaches); I was > >> wondering though if anybody had a better approach to recommend? > > I'd say you need a versioned build

Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 01/24/2011 04:32 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:02:17PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Hello, >> >> it was recently pointed out to me that one of my library packages >> encountered a build error whilst attempting to backport it to an older >> system. >> >> The build fa

Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:02:17PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > Hello, > > it was recently pointed out to me that one of my library packages > encountered a build error whilst attempting to backport it to an older > system. > > The build failed because I use symbol patterns, specifically c++