Bug#457966: debhelper: dh_makeshlibs: smart -V by taking the max version in symbol file

2009-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
The corner case where -V still matters is if a package that ships a symbols file is built with a new toolchain, then installed and built against on an old system using an old version of dpkg-shlibdeps. Do you think this use case is irrelevant, and we should just stop using -V when converting to

Bug#457966: debhelper: dh_makeshlibs: smart -V by taking the max version in symbol file

2009-09-03 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: The corner case where -V still matters is if a package that ships a symbols file is built with a new toolchain, then installed and built against on an old system using an old version of dpkg-shlibdeps. Do you think this use case is irrelevant, and we should just stop

Bug#457966: debhelper: dh_makeshlibs: smart -V by taking the max version in symbol file

2007-12-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joey Hess [Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:33:56 -0500]: Adeodato Simó wrote: Now that symbol files are here, I think it could make sense to have a smart mode for dh_makeshlibs were the shlib version is determined as the highest version that appears in the symbols file. This would allow for a

Bug#457966: debhelper: dh_makeshlibs: smart -V by taking the max version in symbol file

2007-12-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.63 Severity: wishlist Hello. Now that symbol files are here, I think it could make sense to have a smart mode for dh_makeshlibs were the shlib version is determined as the highest version that appears in the symbols file. This would allow for a tight shlibs file,

Bug#457966: debhelper: dh_makeshlibs: smart -V by taking the max version in symbol file

2007-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Adeodato Simó wrote: Now that symbol files are here, I think it could make sense to have a smart mode for dh_makeshlibs were the shlib version is determined as the highest version that appears in the symbols file. This would allow for a tight shlibs file, without the need to maintaining the