News for Debian developers
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-- Your Name
Using wildcards in symbols files
Since dpkg-dev 1.14.16, dpkg-gensymbols supports a new syntax in the debian/*.symbols files to provide the same dependency information for all symbols from a given library version (example: *@GLIBC_2.0). It makes it easy to provide a symbols file for sane libraries using symbol versioning. Check dpkg-gensymbols' man page to learn more about this.
-- Raphael Hertzog
Dpkg feature removal schedule and API information
Starting with dpkg 1.14.16, two files are provided under /usr/share/doc (README.feature-removal-schedule and README.api) which describe the timeline for features that are going to get removed and the status of the APIs provided by dpkg and dpkg-dev.
-- Guillem Jover
Previous news
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00011.html Issue 3]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-3.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00007.html Issue 2]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-2.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg00006.html Issue 1]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-1.html Japanese version]
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