Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.14 Severity: wishlist User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: dpkg-gensymbols
Matthias Klose suggested me to support wildcards in symbols files. The idea is that the maintainer could then create the symbols files this way: libc.so.6 libc6 #MINVER# [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2 [...] dpkg-gensymbols would still generate full symbols files (with all symbols listed) but it would take the version from the matching wildcard. The downside is that when using this facility, dpkg-gensymbols has no way to detect symbols that have disappeared since previous version. I find this idea interesting to ease the work on very complex libs that have sane upstreams (like glibc or some gcc libs) but I'd like to have the opinion of others too. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
