Package: tcl-expect Version: 5.45.4-2build1 Severity: serious User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: time-t
Dear maintainers, Analysis of the archive for the 64-bit time_t transition[0][1] identifies tcl-expect as an affected package, on the basis that the headers could not be compiled and analyzed out of the box using abi-compliance-checker[2], so we have to assume it's affected. However, tcl-expect' shlibs file declares a dependency on a library package name that contains no ABI information: $ cat DEBIAN/shlibs libexpect 5.45 tcl-expect $ It is therefore not obvious that we should rename the package to 'tcp-expect-t64' as part of this transition. Looking at the archive, there is a package built from a separate source package, 'skycat', which depends on this library Since there is no self-evident thing to do with the library package name here, we will not be handling this package as part of the mass NMUs. Instead I am filing a serious bug because partial upgrades from bookworm to trixie on 32-bit architectures (upgrading tcl-expect without also upgrading skycat) will result in ABI skew and may result in broken behavior. Cheers, mwh [0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/01/msg00041.html [2] https://adrien.dcln.fr/misc/armhf-time_t/2024-02-16T21%3A19%3A00/logs/tcl-expect-dev/base/log.txt -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers mantic-updates APT policy: (500, 'mantic-updates'), (500, 'mantic-security'), (500, 'mantic'), (100, 'mantic-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-17-generic (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
