Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: The problem is that this is not enough to make the built binaries work on stable again[1] because upstream gratuitously broke the ABI in 1.13 by versioning the symbols and now it is too late to revert the change. The symbols are the same, so the ABI should

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: The problem is that this is not enough to make the built binaries work on stable again[1] because upstream gratuitously broke the ABI in 1.13 by versioning the symbols and now it is too late to revert the change. The symbols are the

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: The problem is that this is not enough to make the built binaries work on stable again[1] because upstream gratuitously broke the ABI in 1.13 by versioning the symbols and now it is too late to

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: The problem is that this is not enough to make the built binaries work on stable again[1] because upstream gratuitously broke the ABI in 1.13 by versioning the symbols and now it is too late to revert the change. The symbols are the

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: The problem is that this is not enough to make the built binaries work on stable again[1] because upstream gratuitously broke the ABI in 1.13 by versioning the symbols and now it is too late to

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: I'm just looking for ideas on what do here. Are you suggesting that libidn upstream should increment the shared library version to resolve this? It's not, the solution would be to make the linker also emit unversioned symbols and have them

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: I'm just looking for ideas on what do here. Are you suggesting that libidn upstream should increment the shared library version to resolve this? It's not, the solution would be to make the linker

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: 1) So what should be done now? Is 1.17 fine? I recommend that you remove the new symbol tag since it has no useful purpose. 2) What should have been done from the beginning? Increment the shared library version? No, you should not have

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Feb 05, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: 1) So what should be done now? Is 1.17 fine? I recommend that you remove the new symbol tag since it has no useful purpose. Agreed, will do. 2) What should have been done from the beginning?

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
tags 561291 upstream thanks Debugging this further, I see that there is a upstream bug here. I've explained the problem and proposed a solution at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libidn.general/230 What do you think? After a upstream release with that fix has been added, I propose to

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-01-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 22, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: Btw, is the intention that libidn11.shlibs should be empty, or that the file should be removed? I couldn't really tell from the diff you It must be removed. Oh, I see what you mean now. I get the build failure below when trying to build

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
tags 561291 pending thanks I have applied your libidn.symbols.diff patch to our repository, thanks! (I did add a bunch of symbols that are exported by the library but was not part of your libidn11.symbols file though.) I don't understand the purpose of the libidn.builddepends.diff change. What

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-01-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 21, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: I have applied your libidn.symbols.diff patch to our repository, thanks! (I did add a bunch of symbols that are exported by the library but was not part of your libidn11.symbols file though.) Maybe you applied the patch to a newer version?

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Btw, is the intention that libidn11.shlibs should be empty, or that the file should be removed? I couldn't really tell from the diff you provided. Building with an empty files provokes a warning from pdebuild: dpkg-source: warning: newly created empty file 'debian/libidn11.shlibs' will not be

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 21, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: I have applied your libidn.symbols.diff patch to our repository, thanks! (I did add a bunch of symbols that are exported by the library but was not part of your libidn11.symbols file though.) Maybe

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
tags 561291 help thanks m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 21, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: I have applied your libidn.symbols.diff patch to our repository, thanks! (I did add a bunch of symbols that are exported by the library but was not part of your

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2009-12-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
tag 561291 patch thanks Here it is, along with another minor fix. The problem is that this is not enough to make the built binaries work on stable again[1] because upstream gratuitously broke the ABI in 1.13 by versioning the symbols and now it is too late to revert the change. I suppose that

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2009-12-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: libidn11-dev Version: 1.15-2 Severity: wishlist Lack of a .symbols file in the libidn package prevents at least one of my packages from being installable as is on oldstable. Please let me know if you need help and would rather get a complete patch. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc

Bug#561291: please provide a .symbols file

2009-12-15 Thread AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:46:24PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: Package: libidn11-dev Version: 1.15-2 Severity: wishlist Lack of a .symbols file in the libidn package prevents at least one of my packages from being installable as is on oldstable. Please let me know if you need help and would rather