Hi
On 2024-04-01 23:39:37 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 10:37:03PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > Source: spectrwm
> > Version: 3.5.1-1
> > Severity: serious
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org
> >
> > spectrwm builds a packages with a hard-coded dependency on a library
> > package involved in the time_t 64 transition. This dependency needs to
> > be updated.
>
> It would be useful if you could be more specific. I guess you're
> talking about the dependency on libxt6?
Yes.
>
> The problem with it, and the reason why a manual dependency is used
> in that case, is that ${shlib:Depends} will not pick it up, since
> it's dlopen()ed rather than linked against.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this in a way that plays
> well with the 64-bit time_t transition?
You could derive it from the the dependencies of libxt-dev during the
build or for the time being simply change the dependency based on the
rename of the libxt6 -- provided that spectrwm is compatible with the
new ABI.
Cheers
--
Sebastian Ramacher
