Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#879886: libhts2: libhts2 needs to handle ABI changes

2017-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Diane and everybody, Le Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 05:09:34PM -0800, Diane Trout a écrit : > > I do think we should bring back the symbols file I think so too. Symbols file are strange to work with because their update usually goes through a build failure that outputs a patch, which is not very

Re: Bug#879886: [Debian-med-packaging] libhts2: libhts2 needs to handle ABI changes

2017-11-07 Thread Diane Trout
Hi everyone, I talked some with upstream about the symbols issues with htslib2 https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/616 They think that cram/*.h are private headers, but because we have a policy of avoiding convenience copies we made those functions public[1] because a few applications