[clamav-users] Debian libmspack breakage to fix y2038

[Andrew C Aitchison via clamav-users]

I haven't fully understood this yet, but Debian is planning a flag-day
on 29 March to fix the y2038 bug on 32bit systems (possibly excluding
intel).

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1063130

Since clamav uses libmspack it is listed at
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libmspack
(under "action needed/Marked for autoremoval on 29 March:")
as being affected:
  Version 0.11-1 of libmspack is marked for autoremoval from testing
  on Fri 29 Mar 2024. It is affected by #1063130. The removal of
  libmspack will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse
  dependencies: c-icap-modules, cabextract, clamassassin, clamav,
  clamsmtp, clamtk, cyrus-imapd, dtrx, e2guardian, evolution-ews,
  forensics-extra, libclamunrar, lutris, msttcorefonts, open-vm-tools,
  pg-snakeoil, playonlinux. You should try to prevent the removal by
  fixing these RC bugs.
which suggests that because libmspack will have an incompatible change
(source?) packages that use it will be dropped (from 32bit systems ?)
*unless* they are updated too.

The discussion suggests that some other distributions that
still support 32bits are not planning to fix y2038 for 32bit.

Not sure what the implications are for Ubuntu, but the next release
- 24.04 LTS, "Noble Numbat" - will have 15 years paid support, which
is beyond the y2038 bug.

I guess that the ClamAV and the Debian packages will need to be given
separate consideration.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                   and...@aitchison.me.uk
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