Le Tuesday 8 November 2011 23:47:56, Thomas Weber a écrit : > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:21:16PM +0100, roucaries bastien wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Weber <twe...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm in the process of converting Debian's Octave packages into a > > > structure with proper library packaging. The symbols file of these > > > three C++ libraries has about 30k lines. > > > > > > I'm pretty new to symbols handling, so I'm looking for advice on > > > how to handle this. Is there a simple way to reduce the pure size of > > > this file? Or is this size normal? > > > > > > Further, looking at dpkg-gensymbols(1), it seems I should take > > > special care about some C++-features - can you point me to an example > > > of how to do this? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Thomas > > > > Try to use hidden linking before doing this. Ask upstream hel, if needed. > > Do you mean GCC's -fvisibility=hidden? If yes, I'm at a loss at how to > do this in a sensible way - if the symbols were exported before, > changing this in Debian might break other software that actually uses > these symbols.
Yes but because you will upload a new major version you will break. So try to convince upstream to do this. > > BTW do you need help on arpack ? > > Opps, thanks for pointing me at this. I had totally forgotten about > arpack being bundled. Do you need help ? Do you need a new upstream ? Bastien > Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201111161032.22451.roucaries.bast...@gmail.com
