On 1 February 2024 at 07:21, mwhud...@debian.org wrote: | Source: dieharder | Version: 3.31.1.4-1 | Severity: serious | Tags: patch pending | Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade | User: debian-...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: time-t | | Dear maintainer, | | As part of the 64-bit time_t transition required to support 32-bit | architectures in 2038 and beyond | (https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time), we have identified | dieharder as a source package shipping runtime libraries whose ABI | either is affected by the change in size of time_t, or could not be | analyzed via abi-compliance-checker (and therefore to be on the safe | side we assume is affected). | | To ensure that inconsistent combinations of libraries with their | reverse-dependencies are never installed together, it is necessary to | have a library transition, which is most easily done by renaming the | runtime library package. | | Since turning on 64-bit time_t is being handled centrally through a change | to the default dpkg-buildflags (https://bugs.debian.org/1037136), it is | important that libraries affected by this ABI change all be uploaded close | together in time. Therefore I have prepared a 0-day NMU for dieharder | which will initially be uploaded to experimental if possible, then to | unstable after packages have cleared binary NEW. | | Please find the patch for this NMU attached. | | If you have any concerns about this patch, please reach out ASAP. Although | this package will be uploaded to experimental immediately, there will be a | period of several days before we begin uploads to unstable; so if information | becomes available that your package should not be included in the transition, | there is time for us to amend the planned uploads.
Been meaning to say thanks for the patch and PR since I saw it bubble up late last week. I just applied it to my repo and pushed it. Thanks again, Dirk | -- System Information: | Debian Release: trixie/sid | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | | Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-15-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 not set | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash | Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT nmu_dieharder.debdiff, plain text] -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
