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   From: bunk@debian.org   
      
   On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 04:35:28PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:   
   >...   
   > 2. The fixes in there introduce two new symbols in shared libraries   
   >    which appeared in much later versions of the library - 3.20 or 3.21.   
   >    These new symbols are used internally by freerdp binaries, no   
   >    existing-in-trixie clients, obviously, don't use these.   
   >    I can't just add these symbols to the trixie shared libs with   
   >    min version being current trixie one, because there's a version   
   >    gap when this symbol doesn't exist.   
   >   
   >    So I use a trick by providing a virtual package with these   
   >    symbols for trixie, and use alternative dependency - either   
   >    this virtual package or recent-enough library where this   
   >    symbol actually appeared.   
   >...   
      
   New symbols are more common in pu updates than you might imagine,   
   including in core packages like python3.   
      
   Just using 3.15.0+dfsg-2+deb13u1~ as symbol version   
   for the new symbols would be the normal solution.   
      
   The version gap does technically exist, but only when upgrading to older   
   versions from testing/unstable AND having a (local) package that is   
   using the symbol installed - this is a pretty theoretical issue.   
      
   I am not a member of the release team and I am not saying that what you   
   are doing is wrong, but it is not really necessary or usually done.   
      
   > Thanks,   
   >   
   > /mjt   
      
   cu   
   Adrian   
      
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