Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.23.3 Severity: wishlist I've come across several symbols files that use wildcards to match basically any symbol. Doesn't this make the symbols file kind of moot, as it will never detect any symbols that got removed and it will always match any symbols added?
Could dpkg-gensymbols start erroring if it encounters files like this, and fail the build to prevent such symbol files from getting into any release? Example: libssl3t64.symbols libcrypto.so.3 libssl3t64 #MINVER# * Build-Depends-Package: libssl-dev *@OPENSSL_3.0.0 3.0.0 *@OPENSSL_3.0.3 3.0.3 *@OPENSSL_3.0.8 3.0.8 *@OPENSSL_3.0.9 3.0.9 *@OPENSSL_3.1.0 3.1.0 *@OPENSSL_3.2.0 3.2.0 *@OPENSSL_3.3.0 3.3.0 *@OPENSSL_3.4.0 3.4.0 *@OPENSSL_3.5.0 3.5.0 libssl.so.3 libssl3t64 #MINVER# * Build-Depends-Package: libssl-dev *@OPENSSL_3.0.0 3.0.0 *@OPENSSL_3.2.0 3.2.0 *@OPENSSL_3.3.0 3.3.0 *@OPENSSL_3.4.0 3.4.0 *@OPENSSL_3.5.0 3.5.0 Another example which I fixed yesterday: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils/-/commit/77d9470ff01acac116af14c28bd037cdf0f3e640
