Recent changes in dpkg

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:13:16AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On 24/05/10 05:05, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>>   * dpkg-gensymbols offers new ways to manage symbols files (matching C++
>>     symbols by their demangled name, matching symbols with regular
>>     expressions) thanks to Modestas Vainius.
>
>This should be useful for people using symbols files.

Yep.  Already looked at it for JACK when that new dpkg was released.

I see no real use for it there, until we have some knowledge on which 
symbols are actually the official ones across implementations of JACK.

For now I simply assume that if a symbol changes in a new release then 
it is sane (but the fact that it changes is then noticed and tracked 
through our git, if the assumption turns out to be wrong).  And I have 
lowered to only warn when most changes occur.

In other words, the symbols file is not used as the intended rigid 
safety net, but rather as a log to help understand problems *after* they 
occur.  This hopefully changes in the future by me or others gaining 
more knowledge in the symbols officially needed by JACK.


  - Jonas

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