On jueves, 12 de octubre de 2017 09:28:20 -03 Thiago Macieira wrote:
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> The point of the ELF version was to help you the distributions detect which
> ones need rebuilding by having the symbol show up. Having the symbol rename
> all the time doesn't make the distro-building more robust, since the
> previous symbols would just disappear and new ones would appear, possibly
> causing breakages. Packagers still need to figure out a way to cause that
> rebuild anyway.

Right, this would be problematic at least for us in Debian. Of course that if 
the patch is applied we can always unapply it.

-- 
Must it be assumed that because we are engineers beauty is not
our concern, and that while we make our constructions robust
and durable we do not also strive to make them elegant?
Is it not true that the genuine conditions of strength always
comply with the secret conditions of harmony?
 Gustave Eiffel, 1887

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