FYI for everyone - watch out for t64 libraries coming. original on debian-devel
On Mon, Feb 26 2024, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2024-02-26 John Goerzen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi folks, > >> As a person that frequently uploads to bookworm-backports, I am >> wondering how we are handling the time_t transition there? > >> The picture of synchronization with testing is a little complicated over >> there. If you change the default build flags, you produce unexpected >> surprises over bookworm. If you don't, the t64 packages aren't really >> t64. > > Hello, > > Imho you would need to undo the t64 rename for bpo instead of fiddling > with buildflags. We needed a transition because the whole distribution > needs to be built consistently with (or without) t64. bookworm is built > without. > > If you backported a libfoo3 which had replaced libfoo2t64 things will > get complicated, it would be necessary to upload as libfoo3t32 but the > tooling (${t32:Provides} does not exist. > > cu Andreas
