Bug#962518: cegui-mk2 FTBFS on mipsel/mips64el: symbol differences

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> Le 09/06/2020 09:59, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=cegui-mk2
> > 
> > ...
> > dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some new symbols appeared in the symbols
> > file: see diff output below
> > dpkg-gensymbols: error: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the
> > symbols file: see diff output below
> > dpkg-gensymbols: warning: debian/libcegui-mk2-0.8.7/DEBIAN/symbols
> > doesn't match completely debian/libcegui-mk2-0.8.7.symbols
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Fix:
> 
> I wonder if the real fix shouldn't be for cegui-mk2 to stop exporting a pile
> of Boost symbols...

I wonder if the real fix shouldn't be to stop providing symbols files 
for C++ libraries...

Symbols files for C libraries are straightforward,
symbols files for C++ libraries are a mess.

This is not a new problem, and not specific to this package.

> Regards,
> 
> Stephen

cu
Adrian