On 2012-01-26, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > But that feels like a result contrary to what I had previously thought was > the intended direction, so I wanted to ask the Debian development > community as a whole: am I missing something? Are these symbols files > actually useful?
Symbol files are nice if you have a upstream who doesn't always take binary compatibility that serious (which is probably the case for 75% of upstreamers). Then you have a list that helps you finding out. (and then of course there is the usual bits and pieces about why symbol files are useful) You do need a bit of knowledge, especially when some of the symbols you mentioned go missing (like the std::vector ones), which isn't normally a abi break. >Am I missing some trick to make them useful? You miss pkgkde-symbolshelper written by the fabulous Modestas Vainius which is available in pkg-kde-tools. http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/symbolfiles.html /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnji22f7.p7v.nos...@sshway.ssh.pusling.com
