On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 12:03:26PM +0100, José Luis Blanco-Claraco wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> As package and upstream's maintainer, what should I do to ensure the
> library is change safe?

> Would it help to totally remove references to time_t in all public headers?

I don't understand what you mean by "change safe". The API is the API, and
we have uploaded it to pick up the new 64-bit time_t ABI.

> El dom, 18 feb 2024, 9:00, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> escribió:
> 
> > Source: mrpt
> > Version: 1:2.11.9+ds-1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch pending sid trixie
> > User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: time-t
> >
> > NOTICE: these changes must not be uploaded to unstable yet!
> >
> > 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
> > mrpt 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 mrpt
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: trixie/sid
> >   APT prefers unstable
> >   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
> > 'experimental')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
> > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> >

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slanga...@ubuntu.com                                     vor...@debian.org

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