Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 06:43:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>> The generated, new symbols file looks something like: > > Why exactly is this file "generated", and how? Symbols files don't work > very well if they aren't being deliberately maintained; it would be much >

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Steve Langasek (Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:13:57 -0700): > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 06:43:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I’m unsure why assigning VERS_1 to all symbols works for preserving > > compatibility, whereas old binaries use symbols not associated with any > > version node (i.e., @Base). M

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 06:43:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > The generated, new symbols file looks something like: Why exactly is this file "generated", and how? Symbols files don't work very well if they aren't being deliberately maintained; it would be much simpler to just use shlibs in t

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Michael Biebl (Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:40:23 +0200): > [not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] [I’m moving to -devel in search of a wider audience, and dropping -mentors via Bcc to avoid the crosspost. Hopefully interested -mentor readers can move to -devel without much inc