[Pkg-dpdk-devel] Uploading DPDK 17.05 to experimental

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> IMHO we could dispense with the symbols files entirely given the
> library packages are now named after the ABI, but I think Christian had
> a good reason for wanting them to stay. Technically they are correct as
> those are the versions that introduced those APIs
>

Yeah the reason the deps are "so low" is because that is the lowest ABI
level they were added.
Since the name is now in the pkg that is obiously useless as you pointed
out, but then it is not "wrong" either.
So we might as well keep it as-is - or is there a drawback we overlook.


> Christian what was it? I forgot already!
>

The thought was - that continuing to carry symbols files will give us
confidence that e.g. adding code to d/p/* will not mess up our symbols
without us noticing it.
They are updated on merges of major versions but should not change at any
other time.



-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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