* Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto <h...@ig.com.br>, 2015-11-30, 16:50:
That said, I wonder if there's any point in passing -V to dh_makeshlibs if the package uses symbols. It doesn't seem useful.The option started to be used in version 2.4.1-1 (2008), I believe. From debian/changelog: * New upstream release (Closes: #480127): - Not bumping shlibs, no new symbol. - To achieve this, use two dh_makeshlibs calls (one for libgphoto2-port0 and one for libgphoto2-$(major), and provide with the last upstream version sharing the same ABI. Using 2.4.0 here although some former versions might have been specified. That shouldn't make any difference from a testing migration point of view. Do you know when the .symbols file started to be in use ?
Symbol files wasn't very popular in 2008 yet. According to the changelog, they were added much later:
| libgphoto2 (2.4.10.1-1) experimental; urgency=low | [...] | [ David Paleino ] | [...] | * Added symbols files | [...] | | -- David Paleino <da...@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:19:03 +0100 I suppose -V should have been removed then. -- Jakub Wilk
