* Loïc Minier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070618 12:04]: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > It's even worse. You're acting as if you were modifying debian/symbols > > without modifying it, saying it's fine because you didn't modify it... > > I think this is fine; the resulting "symbols" file can make strict > assumptions. > > You don't expect dh_makeshlibs to make your build fail, even if you > might forgot excluding some new plugin dir for example. In the same > way, dpkg-gensymbols will generate a symbols file based on your earlier > instructions and will do something safe for symbols which are not > covered by your instructions.
I just fear we will loose most of the advantages if the developers are not reminded the hard way to fix stuff. Of course, we can still live with it - appropriate warnings in lintian and convincing maintainers of core packages probably will fix that anyways. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
