[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#558852: Resolve unresolved symbols in shared libraries

[Charles Plessy]

Le Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Peter Fritzsche a écrit :
> Source: emboss
> Version: 6.1.0-4
> Severity: wishlist
> User: peter.fritzsche at gmx.de
> Usertags: unresolved-symbols-so
> 
> I build all packages some time ago with binutils-gold and your package build
> without an hard failure, but I noticed that you seems to provide a library in
> a specific library package so other packages can link against it without
> problems.... but your shared object has still some unresolved symbols which
> the program which links agaomst it must resolve. This isnt a good idea because
> when you introduce new dependencies the package previously linked against the
> old version will break because it doesnt know about the new dependency.
> Maybe you could link against all needed libraries so programs must not link
> against libraries which it doesnt need to use.

Dear Peter,

thank you for your report, and sorry for not anwering on time.

My understanding of libraries and linkages is quite weak. Could you point me at
a documentation that explains how to “link against all needed libraries”.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan