On 12/11/2011 06:46 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> On 12/11/2011 04:53 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 06:30:17PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: >>>> For reasons I do not know the shlibs version of the libcurl3 package was >>>> overridden by one of the previous maintainers of the package and hasn't >>>> been updated for long. I will look into this (I'll probably remove the >>>> overrides at this point or just bump them FWIW). >>> >>> Actually, the shlibs overrides *are* needed, it's just that they have not >>> been updated since curl 7.16.something. >>> >>> I've bumped them now for all the lib packages, the upload should follow >>> soon. >> >> Did you have a look at the difference between symbols of the 7.16 >> version and the latest one adding new symbols? > > IIRC there were some symbols introduced somewhere between 7.16 and 7.21.1, > and others in 7.23.0 (note that they are not listed in the upstream > cheangelog). So basically 7.23.1 is both the latest upstream and the latest > that introduced new symbols in Debian (we didn't have 7.23.0).
Ok. >> Hmm, shouldn't we use symbol files so dependencies only get bumped when >> there are actually new symbols and only when they get used? > > I was thinking the same today. The "tricky" part is that dpkg-gensymbols > will only generate *.symbols files with version 7.23.1 (or whatever is the > latest package version when it is run) for all the symbols (unless versions > are specified manually for the single symbols) making it not much effective > as of now (also, libcurl3-nss must have 7.23.1 anyway because of the change > in the 7.23.1-1 upload). > > On the other hand, once properly done, it would most probably avoid mistakes > like the one that caused this bug report, since the process will be mostly > automatically executed by dpkg-gensymbols. Right, so it seems it's a good time to start? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
