Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:29:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > I wish for an include mechanism! :) ... > applicable if you use an include mechanism. Duplication is bad, but it may > be easier to manage. Realisitically I expect that if an include

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Knowing those differences, I wonder if I should offer the possibility to > > have > > debian/.symbols.common that would complement what can be found in > > debian/.symbols. or if we need something more elabo

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:11:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > > Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so that > > > one only has to specify the other symbols? > > > No, becaus

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so that > > one only has to specify the other symbols? > No, because they might change with the toolchain and we want to t

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so that > one only has to specify the other symbols? No, because they might change with the toolchain and we want to track that properly... > Or will each maintainer have to maintain one fi

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > dpkg-gensymbols -plibcurl3 -Pdebian/libcurl3 > > dpkg-gensymbols -plibcurl3-gnutls -Pdebian/libcurl3-gnutls > > (you should also create debian/.symbols file, see below > > to grab some pre-generated

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > dpkg-gensymbols -plibcurl3 -Pdebian/libcurl3 > dpkg-gensymbols -plibcurl3-gnutls -Pdebian/libcurl3-gnutls > (you should also create debian/.symbols file, see below > to grab some pre-generated files) > If you want dpkg-shlibdeps to generate smalle

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Knowing those differences, I wonder if I should offer the possibility to have > debian/.symbols.common that would complement what can be found in > debian/.symbols. or if we need something more elaborated like > an include mechanism or a syntax to rest

Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I'd like to give some news on my work. I've been working with the dpkg team to prepare the integration of the new dpkg-shlibdeps... and during that process we decided that a decentralized VCS like git would suit better the need of the team (in particular so that Ian Jackson can more easily