Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: > Well, it took a *long* time before I've undergone the process from > ignoring symbols files to finally providing some in cases where there > are good reasons to use them. Shortly after I now get adise to not > use them. I'm not sure whether this is fully honest - but to you > want to file a bug report against lintian to warn only about missing > symbols files if its not a C++ library?
I took a pretty deep look at this 6 years ago. I'm not sure if the tooling has substantially improved; if not, I recommend against trying to use symbols files for C++. See: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/007.html https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/008.html https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-02/001.html Looks like two of my pkg-kde-tools bug reports were closed, but this one is still open: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658333 -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
