[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] lintian update

[Mark Dufour]

hi guido,

thanks.
 
> The versioned conflicts should very likely be Breaks (but only you can
> tell if that is sufficient to upgrade from an older version). You only
> need conflicts if the packages can't even be unpacked at the same time
> on a system. What's the reason for the Conflicts anyway?

hrmm.. (looking at the policy manual).. no good reason probably.. :P I will try to improve this..

> Some of the packages that have empty descriptions aren't in our packges
> on alioth, did they come out of the library rename?

yeah, there are a few new packages, mostly because of splitting up libmapi into one package per library. 

> The symbol files will be helpful for dependency tracking and detecting
> ABI preckage in the future, you can simply generate them:
> 
>     https://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles
> 
> It would certainly be best if Zarafa would start maintaining the symbol
> information upstream like we do e.g. in libvirt to have proper ABI
> guarantees:
> 
>     http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/libvirt_public.syms;h=59d8c122023044ce378fd5f7024ef23c11cd3736;hb=HEAD
> 
> Pumping symbol versions will the become as simple as:
> 
>    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-libvirt/libvirt.git/commit/?id=5e4d9b7e064ba5ec9219ffa51581547c44f6cbef
> 

thanks for all the info. I will have a good look!

cheers,
mark.