Bug#1125722: dpkg-gensymbols: error if symbols file is too lax

Hi!

Thanks for a quick reply!

> > I've come across several symbols files that use wildcards to match
> > basically any symbol. Doesn't this make the symbols file kind of moot,
> > as it will never detect any symbols that got removed and it will
> > always match any symbols added?
>
> No, this is intended to be used for well maintained libraries. See
> the symver documentation in deb-src-symbols(5).

Yes I see in https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-src-symbols.5.en.html
that his can be used, but my point here is that if the entire file is
only wildcards and nothing else, tracking symbols is kind of moot,
right?

Take a look at the file
https://sources.debian.org/src/openssl/3.5.4-1/debian/libssl3t64.symbols
- does such a file make sense?