New dpkg in experimental

Hi,

there's new a dpkg version in experimental: 1.14.7~newshlib.
It's a snapshot of the dpkg-shlibdeps-buxy branch which contains my work
to enhance dpkg-shlibdeps with symbol-based dependencies.
See http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps for some
background and history.

The work is finished and thus we decided to upload it to experimental to
have some broader testing before releasing it into unstable. The current
plan is the following:
- in a few days, 1.14.7 will be released in unstable _without_ this work
- immediately after the 1.14.7 release, the branch will be merged and
  I'll upload 1.14.8~newshlib to experimental.
- sometimes later 1.14.8 is released and the new dpkg-shlibdeps gets into
  unstable

So please test this version. While rewriting/improving dpkg-shlibdeps I dea=
lt
with all the outstanding bugs and I made it a bit more strict. Most
notably, packages which generate the warning "unable to find dependency
information for shared library" will FTBFS. You'll find a list at the end
of this mail. In most cases, you only need to generate the "shlibs" files
before calling dpkg-shlibdeps and it will fix the problem. In some cases,
this change might lead to self-dependency. If that happens you'll have to
wait until dpkg 1.14.8 comes out after which you'll be able to use the new
"-x" option of dpkg-shlibdeps to strip out the self-dependency (I
already suggested this default behaviour for debhelper's dh_shlibdeps, see
#443973).

The goal of the test period is to make sure that the behaviour of
dpkg-shlibdeps is still correct with plain shlibs file, but given that it
supports "symbols" files, it's time to think of how we're going to add
support of that to our packages. Generating "symbols" files require adding
a call to dpkg-gensymbols (see its manpage in the package) in
debian/rules. It will probably need to be integrated in debhelper
somewhere (see my request at #443978). Feel free to give your opinion by
replying on debian-devel.

Also, once we have all those details sorted out, I'd like help to
make it a release goal for libraries with more than X reverse dependencies
to provide symbols files (X is to be defined of course).


I'd like to thank Guillem Jover and Frank Lichtenheld for their help in
integrating my work in dpkg and Steve Langasek for the numerous advices.


List of packages that FTBFS with the new dpkg:
----------------------------------------------
Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) 
   ardour (U)

J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 
   libgsf

Domenico Andreoli 
   boost (U)

Michael Banck 
   openbabel

Daniel Baumann 
   gnunet-gtk (U)
   gnunet-qt (U)

CJ van den Berg 
   pulseaudio

Eduard Bloch 
   encfs

John Bovey 
   libnjb

Ludovic Brenta 
   gnat-4.2 (U)

Paul Cager 
   afnix

Patrick Caulfield 
   dnprogs

Pierre Chifflier 
   nufw

Debian Boost Team 
   boost

Debian GCC Maintainers 
   gcc-snapshot
   gnat-4.2

Debian GIS Project 
   hdf5

Debian GIS Team 
   libterralib

Debian multimedia packages maintainers 
   vlc

Debian Multimedia Team 
   ardour

Debian Xfce Maintainers 
   xfce4-mixer
   xfce4-session

Yavor Doganov 
   projectmanager.app (U)

Free Ekanayaka 
   ardour (U)

Turbo Fredriksson 
   radiusclient

Debian QA Group 
   nco
   plplot

Troy Heber 
   subversion (U)

Florian Hinzmann 
   xfmail

Simon Huggins 
   xfce4-mixer (U)
   xfce4-session (U)

Shaun Jackman 
   dmx4linux

Ian Jackson 
   chiark-tcl

Robert Jordens 
   ardour (U)

Martin Kittel 
   maxdb-7.5.00

Matthias Klose 
   gcc-snapshot (U)
   maxdb-7.5.00 (U)

Tomohiro KUBOTA 
   mlterm

Arnaud Kyheng 
   gnunet-gtk
   gnunet-qt

Chris Leishman 
   xmlrpc-c

John Lightsey 
   xmms-goom

Martin Loschwitz 
   xfce4-mixer (U)
   xfce4-session (U)

Francesco Paolo Lovergine 
   hdf5 (U)

Ola Lundqvist 
   vzctl

Marcelo E. Magallon 
   mesa-legacy

Rene Mayrhofer 
   gibraltar-bootcd

Robert McQueen 
   pidgin

Loic Minier 
   vlc (U)

Kenshi Muto 
   mlterm (U)

Christophe Mutricy 
   vlc (U)

Alvaro Lopez Ortega 
   cherokee (U)

Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) 
   vlc (U)

Guilherme de S. Pastore 
   subversion (U)

Yves-Alexis Perez 
   xfce4-mixer (U)
   xfce4-session (U)

Frederic Peters 
   wireshark

Ari Pollak 
   pidgin (U)

Christophe Prud'homme 
   boost (U)

Petter Reinholdtsen 
   libterralib (U)

Steve M. Robbins 
   boost (U)

Emanuele Rocca 
   xfce4-mixer (U)
   xfce4-session (U)

Miriam Ruiz 
   gnash

Nick Rusnov 
   galan

Alexander Sack 
   gnash (U)

Peter Samuelson 
   subversion

Thomas Schoepf 
   suspend2-userui

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   adun.app
   projectmanager.app
   wrapperfactory.app

Sjoerd Simons 
   pulseaudio (U)

Roger So 
   im-sdk
   im-sdk (U)

Manoj Srivastava 
   libsemanage

Riccardo Stagni 
   qingy

Cl=E9ment Stenac 
   vlc (U)

Paul J Stevens 
   cpu (U)

Akira TAGOH 
   im-sdk (U)

Guido Trotter 
   cpu

Andrea Veri 
   verlihub

Santiago Vila 
   gettext

Michael Vogt 
   libxbase
   vdkbuilder2
   xdb

Sune Vuorela 
   kommando

Florian M. Weps 
   oo2c

Patrick Winnertz 
   lmms

Gunnar Wolf 
   cherokee

Milan Zamazal 
   scanbuttond
   speech-dispatcher


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