Package: cyrus-common Version: 3.8.1-1 Severity: serious User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: time-t
Dear maintainers,
Analysis of the archive for the 64-bit time_t transition[0][1] identifies
cyrus-common as an affected package, on the basis that the headers could not
be compiled and analyzed out of the box using abi-compliance-checker[2], so
we have to assume it's affected.
However, cyrus-commons's shlibs file declares a dependency on a library
package name that contains no ABI information:
$ cat DEBIAN/shlibs
libcyrus 0 cyrus-common (>= 3.8.1)
libcyrus_imap 0 cyrus-common (>= 3.8.1)
libcyrus_min 0 cyrus-common (>= 3.8.1)
libcyrus_sieve 0 cyrus-common (>= 3.8.1)
$
It is therefore not obvious that we should rename the package to
'cyrus-common-t64' as part of this transition.
Looking at the archive, there are packages that depend on these libraries,
cyrus-admin and cyrus-clients. Despite being built from the same source
package, they do not have a strict versioned dependency on cyrus-common but
instead use the shlibs.
Since there is no self-evident thing to do with the library package name
here, we will not be handling this package as part of the mass NMUs.
Instead I am filing a serious bug because partial upgrades from bookworm to
trixie on 32-bit architectures (upgrading cyrus-common without also
upgrading cyrus-{admin,clients}) will result in ABI skew and may result in
broken behavior.
Thanks,
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[0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/01/msg00041.html
[2]
https://adrien.dcln.fr/misc/armhf-time_t/2024-01-17/logs/cyrus-dev/base/log.txt
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