Passing -V as default

[Scott Kitterman]

On April 23, 2018 10:03:45 PM UTC, "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>If I understand correctly and, let's suppose, libQtFoo 5.10.2 is built
>with a patched compat 12, then all applications rebuilt against 5.10.2
>would require at very least 5.10.2 even if symbols files allowed it to
>depend on a minor version.
>
>If this is true is more or less what we are currently forcing with any
>package that B-Ds on qtbase5-dev, although this would also mean that
>packages that just B-D on qtbase5-private-dev will get the same
>behavior (even if they do not list qtbase5-dev as a B-D and not taking
>into account the qtbase-abi-x-y-z dependency).
>
>The only thing I don't know from this is iif symbols files dependency
>info is totally discarded or the dependency on qtbase-abi-x-y-z would
>still be get trough them for packages using private API.
>
>Niels: like in [1] we use dpkg-symbols'
>"alternative-dependency.template" to track packages using private API.
>As long as this is kept then the change, I think, should be ok.
>
>[1]
><https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtbase/blob/master/debian/libqt5core5a.symbols>

If that's true, I doubt C++ symbols files  are worth the trouble.  

Scott K