2016-12-02 18:08 GMT+01:00 Ghislain Vaillant <[email protected]>: > On 02/12/16 16:36, lumin wrote: >> >> Hi mentors, >> >> I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when >> the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. >> >> I'm maintaining a package named "Caffe". I migrated the same >> source from experimental to unstable, and it FTBFS'ed as you >> see at [0], due to the mangled C++ symbols change. Actually >> this package FTBFS'ed many times in the history due to >> symbols change. (I have no e.g. ppc64el machine, hence >> unable to test before upload) > > > Stopping you right there. Maintaining C++ symbols is notoriously painful, > and I was advised back in my early packaging days to just avoid it. > > Perhaps things have changed since, and other people might disagree.
dh-acc and abi-compliance-checker might help you maintain your own soname. Nothing guaranteed, though. Jérémy
