On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:44:31AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > As I received a couple of bug reports today about packages FTBFS, I > > installed > > binutils-gold and tried to compile a few of my packages with it. > > > > What I noticed is, that every package with symbols file, produced a lintian > > error, as binutils-gold added new symbols, the most common one was > > e...@base > > > > What's the reason for those additional symbol(s) with binutils-gold? > > Corollary: can't they be hidden ?
If necessary, they can be blacklisted by dpkg-gensymbols, it already does that for a couple of internal symbols that the toolchain does add automatically. Please file a wishlist bug against dpkg-dev with the list of symbols in that case. Cheers, -- Raphaƫl Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org