On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:15:02AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Now, if we have people store symbols in shlibs file, it means that > > dh_installdeb would install the shlibs file with symbols. That could be > > almost enough except that we really want a check that the information > > stored in those files matches the reality so we need to call > > dpkg-gensymbols either to update the file with real symbol information or > > at least to verify it and fail it it doesn't match. > > Can you clarify what you mean by "update the file with real symbol > information"? If the real lib doesn't match, how do you plan to achieve > this?
The real lib has precedence over the provided symbols file. - any new symbol is added and marked with mininal version being the current version of the package - a symbol that disappeared is marked as deprecated. Currently it comments it out in the file like this: #DEPRECATED: 2.5-9#ld-linux.so.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 - any symbol information concerning a library that is not in the package is dropped - symbols concerning a new library not listed in the debian/symbols are added with minimal version being the current one - in all the remaining cases (symbol and library exists) I just keep the provided symbols information > Specifically, how do you save the information generated at this stage > so that the details of which symbols were added in this particular build > aren't lost in the future? (You can't save it in the source package at > this point without /also/ throwing a failure, because the source is already > built and you're in the middle of the binary target when this gets > checked...) The information generated is saved in the "DEBIAN/symbols" file inside the package. This information can then be auto-extracted on one of our servers and made available to developers so that they can update their debian/*.symbols.* files. (Storing in the source has never been a good option since most builds are binary-only anyway) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
