On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 at 15:24:50 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > But fundamentally, how do we know how third-party binaries > are compiled ?
We don't, but we can make some inferences. If they are i386 binaries that already worked on Debian 12 or older, and they call into time_t-sensitive ABIs (for instance X509_cmp_time() in OpenSSL might be a good example), then they must have been compiled with the expectation that time_t was 32-bit, because that's the ABI that Debian 12 provided. If they didn't already work on Debian 12 or older, then it isn't a regression that they also don't work on Debian 13. smcv