On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > how are they related to the dpkg-gensymbols?
The exported symbols of a library are part of the ABI but the purpose of the two tools is completely different. > Would it make sense to use the symbol files with it or have it as an > alternative to dpkg-gensymbols? I don't think so. > Would it be possible to do that automatically using debhelper? debhelper does not have the old binary packages available and isn't a QA tool anyway. lintian is a QA tool but does not have the old binary packages available. If we are to do this automatically, we are going to need a service especially designed for it, possibly based on snapshot.d.o. > Or if not, maybe download the current deb from the archive and compare > it? You can definitely do that manually and I hope any library maintainers reading this thread will do so. It might be nice to have a wrapper script in devscripts to download the relevant binary package versions, run both tools, generate reports and print any discrepancies. If we had such a tool, it could be added to check-all-the-things. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
