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Package: dnsdist
Version: 1.8.2-3
Severity: wishlist
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Dear Maintainer,
dnsdist has been available until Bullseye in Debian on 32-bit arhitectures,
when support was removed and package was modified to depend on
"architecture-is-64-bit".
That seems to be prompted by this upstream change (quoting from
https://blog.powerdns.com/2021/05/11/dnsdist-1-6-0-released):
"We would also like to take this opportunity to announce that we will stop
supporting systems using 32-bit time. This includes 32-bit Linux platforms
like arm and i386 before kernel version 5.1."
and confirmed in Debian changelog
https://sources.debian.org/src/dnsdist/1.8.2-3/debian/changelog/#L97
"* Note: upstream dropped support for archs with 32bit time_t values in 1.6.0."
And indeed, trying to compile Debian package on 32-bit armhf Debian Bookworm,
it fails in configure step due to 32-bit time_t.
However, Debian Bookworm (and newer) include new glibc and kernel > 5.1
which allow for 64-bit time_t on 32-bit system like armhf, as documented
here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Feature-Test-Macros.html#index-_005fTIME_005fBITS
So, all that is needed for dnsdist on 32-bit platform (like my Rasperry Pi
armhf, where I tested that solution, and it compiles and runs just fine,
both versions 1.7.3-2 and 1.8.2-3) is:
export DEB_CXXFLAGS_APPEND="-D_TIME_BITS=64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
(and skipping dependency on architecture-is-64-bit, of course).
So, can we fix the build on 32-bit architectures that support 64-bit time_t?
I'd love to see dnsdist back on armhf in Trixie!
Thank you for your consideration.
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> > I think we'll wait at the very least until Debian finishes the t64
> > transition, and then we'll see what to do about 32bit archs.
>
> Yes, when transition happens (with tentative timeline of Jan 2024?),
> re-enabling 32-bit archs for dnsdist should "just work".
dnsdist builds again on all archs. I'm not sure if its supposed to
do that on i386, but I personally don't care about i386 for this.
Best,
Chris
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