libixion symbols file

[Michael Terry]

Another option would be to call "dh_makeshlibs -V" with no version
argument.  This is a conservative option, so the reverse depends will be
tightly coupled.  But it's safe.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen <
bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> so liborcus now build-depends on libixion due to an update that was synced
> to
> utopic. I cleared most of the work needed for a MIR[1], but will not yet
> add a
> symbols file, as a quick check shows it would include (non-template)
> symbols from
> the ::std:: and ::boost:: namespaces which clearly it shouldnt. So as per
> https://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles: "If you find (on some arches)
> symbols that are exported which are not supposed to be public, you must
> not use
> symbols versioning at all." Before shipping a symbols file, upstream would
> need
> to get its ducks in a row.
>
> Note in addition, that:
> - currently the only possible client of libixion is LibreOffice
> - the libixion ABI so far does not have any ambition to be stable yet -- in
>   fact, IIRC the ABI changed with every release so far
> - even LibreOffice on utopic isnt currently using the package, but a
> bundled
>   version of libixion/liborcus anyway (actually it cant be otherwise, as
>   LibreOffice is in main)
>
> So for now, Id suggest to either:
>  a/ keep LibreOffice on its internal build versions of libixion/liborcus
> and
>     not update the packages in the archive (which are unused anyway)
>  b/ update libixion/liborcus without a symbols file for now, use that from
>     LibreOffice and be optimistically confident that upstream libixion
> will fix
>     their exports by the time there are actually other clients than
> LibreOffice for
>     the lib (if that should ever happen).
>
> Opinions?
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
>
>
> [1] see
> https://code.launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/+junk/ixion-buildflags
>
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