[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] lintian update
Mark Dufour
m.dufour at zarafa.com
Fri Jun 19 13:23:26 UTC 2015
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.
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