Re: Summary of C++ symbols experience (was: Do symbols make sense for C++)

2012-01-29 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Sáb 28 Ene 2012 02:28:25 Russ Allbery escribió: [snip] 2. Build and upload this version of the package. Now wait for all the buildds to fail (because they will, on probably nearly every other architecture than your local one). Sometimes we may expect FTBFSs due to changes in other

Re: Summary of C++ symbols experience (was: Do symbols make sense for C++)

2012-01-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-01-28, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: 5. It's still not clear that the benefit is worth the amount of effort, since I expect most C++ libraries to require frequent SONAME changes anyway, which means that the long-term binary compatibility angle of Qt has kept binary

Summary of C++ symbols experience (was: Do symbols make sense for C++)

2012-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Okay, I've spent parts of another couple of days working on this using the pkg-kde-tools infrastructure, and I think I can draw some more conclusions. First of all, for those who haven't explored the pkg-kde-tools infrastructure for this, it looks like the effective process goes something like