On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 09:38:06PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Well, the title of this bug is "NMU diff for 64-bit time_t
> transition", and the bug description said:

> "we have identified libcomps 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"

> So the fact that there's no trace of time_t to be found and the script
> was broken and couldn't find anything either sounds to me more than
> enough to say it is a false positive.
> If there are more things that can affect this, then the bug
> description ought to at least mention what they are and why, but right
> now it doesn't.

> > So, I'm reopening this bug report.  This package has already been skipped
> > over in the short term for NMUing to unstable, so you can take some
> > additional time to do your own analysis - but barring that, I will plan to
> > do the NMU in 2 days.

> If you can fix the script and show it is actually needed then sure,
> please feel free to reopen and show that it's actually needed. But
> otherwise no, having to carry a silly package name forever "just in
> case" is very much not ok, sorry.

We have done the work now to get an out-of-band result from
abi-compliance-checker confirming that this library's ABI is not affected.

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