Hi,
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> (Severity might even be upgraded as this can cause packages to FTBFS.) I just
> added arch=!armel to some of the symbols of libdiagnostics0 and found
> dpkg-gensymbols to fail in a strange way:
>
> # dpkg-gensymbols -plibdiagnostics0 -d -c4
> Using references symbols from debian/libdiagnostics0.symbols
> Scanning debian/tmp/usr/lib/libdiagnostics.so.0 for symbol information
> Merging symbols from debian/tmp/usr/lib/libdiagnostics.so.0 as
> libdiagnostics.so.0
> Scanning debian/tmp/usr/lib/libdiagnostics.so.0.1.2 for symbol information
> Merging symbols from debian/tmp/usr/lib/libdiagnostics.so.0.1.2 as
> libdiagnostics.so.0
> Scanning debian/tmp/usr/lib/libdiagnostics.so for symbol information
> Merging symbols from debian/tmp/usr/lib/libdiagnostics.so as
> libdiagnostics.so.0
> Storing symbols in debian/tmp/DEBIAN/symbols.
> dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some new symbols appeared in the symbols file: see
> diff output below
> dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the symbols
> file: see diff output below
> # echo $?
> 1
>
> Further debugging this I found that there is a typo in
> /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Shlibs/Symbol.pm, line 272:
>
> return 0 if $self->{tags}{$tag} ne defined $other->{tags}{$tag};
>
> That "defined" doesn't make sense in there. Removing it makes things work
> fine.
Thanks, I applied your fix and pushed it to the master branch.
Modestas, you might want to double check the change and maybe provide a
new non-regression test to cover what was not working?
Cheers,
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