Bug#962518: cegui-mk2 FTBFS on mipsel/mips64el: symbol differences

[Tobias Frost]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 03:21:37PM -0400, Olek Wojnar wrote:
> Any advice on this? I really want to do what's "right" and what's best for
> this package and the greater Debian infrastructure but I wonder if
> insisting on shipping symbols files is actually doing more harm than good.
> (e.g. I'm sure the buildds don't appreciate the extra load...)

Do a "good enough" procedure, because it is best for Debian if you do
not burn out due to symbols.

My 2 cents: Stop shipping symbol files. Their troubles outweight by
far the benefits* and they make (C++) stuff incredible fragile.
Even with the kde symbol helpers it is still a mess.
I've been burnt by them countless times… You never know whether a subsequent
upload, binNMU or toolchain change will break your build again.

* I'd rather hack on other bugs than on doing constantly symbol file massages…

Just my 2 cents, of course… YMMV…

> -Olek