[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#736411: sra-sdk: FTBFS on i386-any: symbol changes

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:21:55PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> is there anybody out there who considers symbols files has any other
> purpose than spending time of maintainers?  I added these files to some
> packages for no better use than creating FTBFS later on.  From my
> perspective the most reasonable fix for this to simply delete the
> symbols file.  If there is no volunteer for fixing this I'd go this
> route.

Hi Andreas,

the symbols file in sra-sdk is quite superfluous and I added it mostly for my
self-training; I am sorry that it wasted your time.

But note that, in general, symbols files are particularly useful when packaging
C libraries that are broadly used, and are much less useful with C++.

Please feel free to delete it in sra-sdk and in packages that have similar
characteristics (C++, few or no reverse-dependancy on the libraries they
provide).

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles