Dependency meaning

This is essentially a follow-up on my question about the 64bit time_t transition. I'm trying to upgrade some packages manually. For this, I'm trying to understand the dependencies. 'apt-cache showpkg libssl3t64' gives me this: Dependencies: 3.1.5-1.1 - libc6 (2 2.34) libssl3 (3 3.1.5-1.1)

How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

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

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

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: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On 5/27/24 20:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll need things like apt install libc-bin/bookworm To install a single backported (or other release) package,