NAME

       pkgkde-symbolshelper  -  a  tool  to  help simplify managing C++ symbols files for the KDE
       project.

SYNOPSIS

       pkgkde-symbolshelper create | patch | batchpatch | rewrite

DESCRIPTION

       pkgkde-symbolshelper  provides  helps  to  automate   the   process   of   managing   your
       deb-symbols(5) files.

       There are four commands, create, patch, batchpatch, and rewrite.

CREATING SYMBOLS FILE

       To create the symbols file for a library package libfoo1 whose version is 1.7
              pkgkde-gensymbols -plibfoo1 -v1.7 -Osymbols.amd64 -edebian/libfoo1/usr/lib/libfoo.so.1
              pkgkde-symbolshelper create -o debian/libfoo1.symbols -v 1.7 symbols.amd64

       The above commands should be invoked from the top level directory of
       your package's source after having built the package before cleaning,
       so that debian/libfoo1/usr/lib/libfoo.so.1 exists).

       "symbols.amd64" is the filename of the intermediate symbols file that
       will be generated by pkgkde-gensymbols. This filename must be in the
       format "name.architecture" or "name_architecture" where "architecture"
       is the cpu architecture on which you have built this package.

UPDATING A SYMBOLS FILE FOR A NEW LIBRARY VERSION

       After  building a new version of the library (for instance 1.8 of our libfoo1 library from
       above), symbols may have been added or removed, and in  both  cases  one  must  check  and
       update the symbols file. During the build, a diff between the current symbols file and the
       one based on the current built library will printed in the  output.   pkgkde-symbolshelper
       can read the build log to find this diff, to save the build log one may want to do:
              dpkg-buildpackage | tee buildlog
              pkgkde-symbolshelper patch -p libfoo1 -v 1.8 < buildlog

UPDATING MULTIPLE SYMBOLS FILES AT ONCE

       For  source packages that provide multiple binary library packages, it is useful to have a
       method to patch all the symbol files at once, pkgkde-symbolshelper offers a way to do this
       using the batchpatchcommand.Forexample:
              pkgkde-symbolshelper batchpatch -v 1.8 < buildlog

       batchpatch  can  also  be  of  use  when  one  wants  to  update symbol files for multiple
       architectures at once. There  is  an  additional  command  pkgkde-getbuildlogs  that  will
       download the build logs for multiple architectures from Debian's build servers.
              pkgkde-getbuildlogs
              pkgkde-symbolshelper batchpatch -v 1.8 foo_unstable_logs/foo_1.8-1*.build

NOTES

       This man page was based text written by others from the pkg-kde symbols file help page.

SEE ALSO

       http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/symbolfiles.html
       https://people.redhat.com/drepper/symbol-versioning
       https://people.redhat.com/drepper/goodpractice.pdf
       https://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
       dpkg-gensymbols(1), deb-symbols(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1).