Bug#582238: libebml: New upstream release 0.8.0

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sa, Mai 29, 2010 at 12:46:43 (CEST), Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> On Sa, Mai 29, 2010 at 12:15:20 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:46:07AM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>>>On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:44:07PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>>>> Am 27.05.2010 23:08, schrieb Eric Dantan Rzewnicki:
>>>>> I have imported libebml into the team's git on alioth and merged the
>>>>> new upstream. I'm new to library packaging, but will solicit
>>>>> assistance from other team members to make this happen.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for taking care of libebml.
>>>>
>>>> Did you notice the many changes to the exported headers? Most
>>>> probably you should raise the shlibs information (e.g. via
>>>> "dh_makeshlibs -V"). If we are unlucky, upstream even modified the
>>>> exported ABI, which would mean we need to deviate from upstream and
>>>> raise the library SONAME.
>>>
>>>I did not notice. Thank you for pointing it out.
>>
>> IMHO an excellent reason to use a symbols file!
>
> Good idea.

actually, not, this is a c++ lib.

I know that dpkg-gensymbols in unstable supports c++ unmangled symbol
names, but I cannot figure out how to make it create templates with
unmangled symboles. I'm certainly not going to do this step by hand!

Jonas, do you know how to do that?


If not, I think the package is good to test and upload after
debian/changelog has been updated.

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