Package: dnsdist Version: 1.8.2-3 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: mnalis-debian...@voyager.hr
Dear Maintainer, dnsdist has been available until Bullseye in Debian on 32-bit arhitectures, when support was removed and package was modified to depend on "architecture-is-64-bit". That seems to be prompted by this upstream change (quoting from https://blog.powerdns.com/2021/05/11/dnsdist-1-6-0-released): "We would also like to take this opportunity to announce that we will stop supporting systems using 32-bit time. This includes 32-bit Linux platforms like arm and i386 before kernel version 5.1." and confirmed in Debian changelog https://sources.debian.org/src/dnsdist/1.8.2-3/debian/changelog/#L97 "* Note: upstream dropped support for archs with 32bit time_t values in 1.6.0." And indeed, trying to compile Debian package on 32-bit armhf Debian Bookworm, it fails in configure step due to 32-bit time_t. However, Debian Bookworm (and newer) include new glibc and kernel > 5.1 which allow for 64-bit time_t on 32-bit system like armhf, as documented here: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Feature-Test-Macros.html#index-_005fTIME_005fBITS So, all that is needed for dnsdist on 32-bit platform (like my Rasperry Pi armhf, where I tested that solution, and it compiles and runs just fine, both versions 1.7.3-2 and 1.8.2-3) is: export DEB_CXXFLAGS_APPEND="-D_TIME_BITS=64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" (and skipping dependency on architecture-is-64-bit, of course). So, can we fix the build on 32-bit architectures that support 64-bit time_t? I'd love to see dnsdist back on armhf in Trixie! Thank you for your consideration.
