[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#558856: Resolve unresolved symbols in shared libraries

Peter Fritzsche peter.fritzsche at gmx.de
Mon Nov 30 18:32:25 UTC 2009


Source: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20090923-1
Severity: wishlist
User: peter.fritzsche at gmx.de
Usertags: unresolved-symbols-so

I build all packages some time ago with binutils-gold and your package build
without an hard failure, but I noticed that you seems to provide a library in
a specific library package so other packages can link against it without
problems.... but your shared object has still some unresolved symbols which
the program which links agaomst it must resolve. This isnt a good idea because
when you introduce new dependencies the package previously linked against the
old version will break because it doesnt know about the new dependency.
Maybe you could link against all needed libraries so programs must not link
against libraries which it doesnt need to use.

Maybe it is related to following bugs which hard failed due to unresolved
symbols in programs
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=peter.fritzsche@gmx.de;tag=no-add-needed

More informations can be found at
 http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS#A2009-11-02Packagesfailingbecausebinutils-gold.2BAC8-indirectlinking
dpkg-shlibdeps already showed you the related warnings:

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyDict_New used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol Py_SetProgramName used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyTuple_Size used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyErr_Clear used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyCallable_Check used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyErr_Format used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol PyErr_SetString used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol Py_Initialize used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol Py_Main used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libfontforge.so.1.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 63 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol fmod used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libgutils.so.1.0.3 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol floor used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libgutils.so.1.0.3 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol rint used by debian/libfontforge1/usr/lib/libgutils.so.1.0.3 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol floor used by debian/libgdraw4/usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4.0.8 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol atan2 used by debian/libgdraw4/usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4.0.8 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol rint used by debian/libgdraw4/usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4.0.8 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol fmod used by debian/libgdraw4/usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4.0.8 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by debian/libgdraw4/usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4.0.8 found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by debian/libgdraw4/usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4.0.8 found in none of the libraries.





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