Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: On armel architecture, the symbol differences have usually been inlined softfloat symbols being exported. Which is additional symbols and would thus not break symbol checking (if I understood correctly). Yes. What is more worrying is the lack of

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Unfortunately I don't really like this idea because sbuild doesn't keep environment variables, and I don't really want to patch sbuild every time I want to update it instead of using the .deb package directly from debian-admin. This is surely

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give you the right to ignore the problem as you did until now. We've had only one unconclusive IRC discussion, that's not really ignoring the problem. And I still believe, you're over exagerating the

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Note that this is a case where the API is supposed to be stable across architectures... can you show me what the differences are and why they are legitimate? Please show me the build-failure. FTR, here's the relevant

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give you the right to ignore the problem as you did until now. We've had only one unconclusive IRC discussion, that's not really ignoring the problem. And I still believe,

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Though it's worth asking ourselves if it would make sense to have an intermediary fallback between debian/*.symbols.arch and debian/*.symbols that would be debian/*.symbols.kernel. While it will fixes the problem due to the variation of the

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The issue is that some supplementary symbols are exported due to libtool working differently with C++ libs for apparently no good reasons. It is not really armel-specific (except for the fact that armel generated supplementary symbols that should

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Please read the bug log again. The supplementary symbols are not the same on the different architectures, which causes some architectures to have missing symbols compared to some others. In which case it doesn't make sense to have a common

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On armel architecture, the symbol differences have usually been inlined softfloat symbols being exported. Which is additional symbols and would thus not break symbol checking (if I understood correctly). What is more worrying is the lack of unofficial arch information in mole. Thus

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Please read the bug log again. The supplementary symbols are not the same on the different architectures, which causes some architectures to have missing symbols compared to some others. In which case it doesn't make sense

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.8 Severity: serious Justification: Potentially breaks all unofficial architectures The new dpkg-gensymbols is surely a great thing that will help the release a lot, but it has been pushed into unstable with a *known* problem: it potentially breaks all unofficial

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Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
severity 452022 wishlist thanks On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.8 Severity: serious Huh ?! I know it's important for you, but that doesn't make it RC. problem: it potentially breaks all unofficial architectures, as the symbols for those

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : severity 452022 wishlist thanks On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.8 Severity: serious Huh ?! I know it's important for you, but that doesn't make it RC. Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give you the