On 26/01/2012 09:08, Sune Vuorela wrote: > 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.
About what i wonder (since i'm not c++ expert) if abi-compliance-checker is serious enough to be used to decide soname bumps ? http://www.upstream-tracker.org/ Regards, Jérémy. -- 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/4f210e27.5070...@melix.org
