On 2023-06-07 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote:
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> There was another option mentioned earlier in the thread that could
> help resolve some aspects of these conflicts; make 32-bit arches
> (or just i386) support both time_t ABIs, like glibc and Linux do.

> The 64-bit time_t ABI would be the default but the 32-bit time_t ABI
> would be present for running old binaries that still kind of work with
> the 32-bit ABIs after 2038, or under faketime when they do not.

> This would be more work for Debian and a lot more work for upstreams
> but would be a better outcome for the diversity of uses for 32-bit.

Hello,

I doubt it is a realistic option, though. This is a non-trivial change
and imho way over Debian's resources.

cu Andreas
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