On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > I also thought about using symbol files for the not very shared > libraries in the fbreader source package, but there's C++ symbol > mangling going on, so I think I can't.
You can, but it generally means having to handle arch-specific symbols files because symbol mangling vary from arch to arch (at least between 32bit and 64bit arch). > > 1/ The symbols files associate a minimum version to each symbol that an > > application might be using. By default, that version is calculated as the > > first version where the symbol appeared. > > Assuming the first version of the symbol is at least in oldstable. :-) In fact, I scanned stable, testing and unstable to create the initial files. So, oldstable has not been considered. And now the files are kept up-to-date with all unstable uploads (experimental ones are not considered). 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]