On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > FWIW, I'm testing this on libxml2. I'd have some remarks: > - The .symbols file in /var/lib/dpkg/info is bigger than all the other > maintainer files there for libxml2. If a significant amount of packages > implement this, it can start to make a difference. It might be nice to > support a gzipped format.
In particular for C++ packages. For C packages, the size impact is quite limited compared to the size of the respective libraries. I didn't implement this until now because all files in control.tar.gz have always been plain text files and I'm not sure I want to change this. Other opinions are welcome. > - Python modules have the same problem as perl modules: the interpreter > doesn't link against the library, so they can't either. That makes a > whole bunch of warnings for each symbol not found... I'm not sure what > should be done for that. Is fixed in git as already noted. 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]
