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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 03:21:37PM -0400, Olek Wojnar wrote:
>
> Thanks for the bug report and both of your comments. The number of times
> I've had to re-upload this package due to symbol issues is really getting
> excessive, it seems.
>...
> Any advice on this? I really want to do what's "right" and what's best for
> this package and the greater Debian infrastructure but I wonder if
> insisting on shipping symbols files is actually doing more harm than good.
> (e.g. I'm sure the buildds don't appreciate the extra load...)

Check the "C++ symbols wrapup" blog post linked from
https://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles

> -Olek

cu
Adrian