On 2023-06-07 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: [...] > 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 -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'