On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 07:56 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > I've done the packaging for him, it's just waiting on him to get back > > > > home to sponsor the uploads. > > > > > > Are the .deb packages somewhere where I can examine them? > > > > > Yes, they're in Ubuntu. > > I just took a quick look at them, and it appears that they are missing > the libblkid1-dbg, libuuid1-dbg, and uuid-runtime-dbg packages. > We auto-generate debug packages for all binaries in Ubuntu, extracted from the compiler, e.g.: http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/u/util-linux/libblkid1-dbgsym_2.16-1ubuntu1_i386.ddeb Since I'm not a Debian maintainer, I don't know how such things are done in Debian so left this for you and/or Lamont to fill in. > Also, apparently no once noticed until now, but there's a bug in the > util-linux-ng's uuid.sym file. The uuid_pack and uuid_unpack symbols > are missing, because someone forgot to include them in the uuid.sym > file. The debian symbol generation system which I see you carefully > moved over detected the problem, but you apparently didn't take a > close enough look at its output to detect the warning messages. > I just copied the symbols file over and applied the update your output said. > BTW, **why** is util-linux-ng gratuitously introducing backwards > incompatibility such that packages built with util-linux-ng won't work > with the older shared libraries? There's no reason to do this. > > There is a hint in the (obsolete) comments in uuid.sym that suggests a > reason why, but it's not justified for libuuid: > You'd have to ask Karel about that one. However I think now it's happened, we shouldn't back it out again. Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxx
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