[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#925736: libbpp-*: ftbfs with GCC-9

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Julien,

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:37:19AM +0200, Julien Dutheil wrote:
> All packages compile without warning with gcc 9. I think the issue is (again) the symbol files, which have to be regenerated.
> Honestly, it seems to me that these symbol files brought more issues than they solved any... is it worth maintaining them?

I agree that those symbols file can be a real nuisance.  I try to
maintain these to be sure that there is no ABI change for new upstream
versions.  If I remember correctly it also happened in the oast with one
of the libbpp libraries changed symbols which was not reflected in a
SOVERSION bump.  I'm not sure whether we can implement better means
to ensure proper SOVERSION - if yes I'm fine with droping the symbols
files.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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