On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:11:17PM +0100, Fabien Spindler wrote:
> Dear,

> Thanks for this patch. If I understand well you will apply the patch.
> I don't have to apply it to the upstream. I'm right?

Correct.  Indeed, this is a packaging change so there's nothing to apply
upstream.

Thanks,
-- 
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> Le 04/02/2024 à 19:19, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > Source: visp
> > Version: 3.6.0-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: patch pending sid trixie
> > Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade
> > User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: time-t
> > 
> > NOTICE: these changes must not be uploaded to unstable yet!
> > 
> > Dear maintainer,
> > 
> > As part of the 64-bit time_t transition required to support 32-bit
> > architectures in 2038 and beyond
> > (https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time), we have identified
> > visp as a source package shipping runtime libraries whose ABI
> > either is affected by the change in size of time_t, or could not be
> > analyzed via abi-compliance-checker (and therefore to be on the safe
> > side we assume is affected).
> > 
> > To ensure that inconsistent combinations of libraries with their
> > reverse-dependencies are never installed together, it is necessary to
> > have a library transition, which is most easily done by renaming the
> > runtime library package.
> > 
> > Since turning on 64-bit time_t is being handled centrally through a change
> > to the default dpkg-buildflags (https://bugs.debian.org/1037136), it is
> > important that libraries affected by this ABI change all be uploaded close
> > together in time.  Therefore I have prepared a 0-day NMU for visp
> > which will initially be uploaded to experimental if possible, then to
> > unstable after packages have cleared binary NEW.
> > 
> > Please find the patch for this NMU attached.
> > 
> > If you have any concerns about this patch, please reach out ASAP.  Although
> > this package will be uploaded to experimental immediately, there will be a
> > period of several days before we begin uploads to unstable; so if 
> > information
> > becomes available that your package should not be included in the 
> > transition,
> > there is time for us to amend the planned uploads.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: trixie/sid
> >    APT prefers unstable
> >    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
> > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 

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