On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 12:06 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > what's the benefit in having a symbols file? It means that packages depending on a library can relax their version dependencies on that library to the oldest version that supports all the symbols they use. Until the symbols mechanism was invented, whenever a library added a symbol, it bumped its shlibs and after that packages built against the library would require the new version. That made it harder to do (partial) upgrades, testing migration etc. https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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