On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually it would be great to have symbols files right from the start. > This way, when the next library version comes out, dpkg-gensymbols will > add the *new* symbols to the file, and when some package links to this > library (including the other binary packages built from this source), > dpkg-shlibdeps will know exactly on which version it needs to depend. > This will avoid needless upgrades on users' machines - if you update > the libmosquitto0 package to a new upstream version and some other > package does *not* use any of the new symbols, there would be no "real" > need for users to upgrade the libmosquitto0 package... barring bugfixes > and stuff, of course :) That sounds eminently sensible, I shall look at doing it this evening. While I'm at it I think I'll patch in a linker version script so I can hide the library internal symbols. I was thinking of doing this for the next mosquitto release anyway, but I presume it'll cause problems if a load of symbols listed in libmosquitto0.symbols disappear. Any reason this is a bad idea? Thanks, Roger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
