Bug#448959: liburiparser's symbolcheck is overly restrictive

[Adeodato Simó]

* Thiemo Seufer [Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:35:10 +0000]:

> Package: uriparser
> Version: 0.6.0-1
> Severity: important

> The check of exported symbols in debian/rules is a bit too restrictive.
> On mips/mipsel the package fails to build since the library exports the
> _ftext symbol. Ignoring this symbol solves the problem.

Hello Thiemo, thanks for this report. I had it under my radar already,
and was only waiting to find some time to fix it, possibly maintaining a
separate list of symbols for certain architectures. Or maybe the new
dpkg symbol handling will land soon enough, or so I hear.

Cheers,

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