Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 4:23 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:22:16 +0100 > Detlef Vollmann wrote: > > >Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? > > I'm far from an expert, but from what I've read, this transition is > *huge*. Possibly the largest

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread songbird
Detlef Vollmann wrote: > Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? > I'm currently stuck with a hard to maintain Sid system. > It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to > install new packages. > > I've looked e.g. into gnutls (on amd64), and

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Marco Moock wrote: It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they depend on the t64 libs. No, only the package names have the 't64' suffix, the

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Marco Moock
Am 20.03.2024 um 09:29:12 Uhr schrieb Erwan David: > Since I begin to have this in tetsing : and what should we do when a > package tries to remove other (except wait) ? > > eg, now in testing upgrading nextcloud-desktop would remove > plasma-discover, and fwbuilder would remove cups. Be

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marco Moock wrote: > The libs will have a suffix of t64 I wonder whether those suffixes will go away at some stage of this effort. (Further i wonder when the package tracker appearance of libisoburn will become less ugly than currently: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libisoburn and how

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/03/2024 à 09:09, Marco Moock a écrit : Am 20.03.2024 um 08:22:16 Uhr schrieb Detlef Vollmann: It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:22:16 +0100 Detlef Vollmann wrote: Hello Detlef, >Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? I'm far from an expert, but from what I've read, this transition is *huge*. Possibly the largest that has ever occurred in Debian. It's going to take

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Marco Moock
Am 20.03.2024 um 08:22:16 Uhr schrieb Detlef Vollmann: > It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to > install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they depend on the t64 libs. Although, carefully read

How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? I'm currently stuck with a hard to maintain Sid system. It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. I've looked e.g. into gnutls (on amd64), and libgnutls30t64 (3.8.3-1.1) as well as