[Pkg-clamav-devel] tomfastmath is ready

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Tue Apr 7 21:42:26 UTC 2015


On 2015-04-01 17:00:33 [-0400], Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > so upstream asked if we could do the symbol hiding within our debian/
> > > folder. Doesn't look that bad, does it?
> > 
> > I don't think it's a good idea to perpetually deviate from upstream's
> > ABI/API, because then projects might start using some of this low level
> > stuff and not work in Debian.
> > 
> > Does upstream think this low level stuff could be useful outside of
> > tomsfastmath or where does the reluctance to hide these symbols come from?
> 
> I think it would be good to get all this sorted out before we upload to the 
> Debian archive.  I definitely don't want to have a Debian specific ABI break 
> after it's in the archive.

Okay. So I forwaded these statements from you two. I don't remeber the
exact answer anymore but I think he got convinced to take those in.
I will try to get some more informations on when those patches show up
in the repository or even a release so there is more than just me
writing something here :)

> Scott K

Sebastian



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