генерировать файлы символов (информация о зависимостях разделяемой библиотеки) (generate symbols files (shared library dependency information))
Описание (Description)
dpkg-gensymbols scans a temporary build tree (debian/tmp by
default) looking for libraries and generates a symbols file
describing them. This file, if non-empty, is then installed in
the DEBIAN subdirectory of the build tree so that it ends up
included in the control information of the package.
When generating those files, it uses as input some symbols files
provided by the maintainer. It looks for the following files (and
uses the first that is found):
• debian/package.symbols.arch
• debian/symbols.arch
• debian/package.symbols
• debian/symbols
The main interest of those files is to provide the minimal
version associated to each symbol provided by the libraries.
Usually it corresponds to the first version of that package that
provided the symbol, but it can be manually incremented by the
maintainer if the ABI of the symbol is extended without breaking
backwards compatibility. It's the responsibility of the
maintainer to keep those files up-to-date and accurate, but
dpkg-gensymbols helps with that.
When the generated symbols files differ from the maintainer
supplied one, dpkg-gensymbols will print a diff between the two
versions. Furthermore if the difference is too significant, it
will even fail (you can customize how much difference you can
tolerate, see the -c option).
