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

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