[CCing Lucas]
On 03.03.24 16:46, Guillem Jover wrote:
Hi!
On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 16:11:36 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
Control: severity -1 serious
I just filed another bug report for bc, together with the one for heimdal.
Please turn this off for a while, it's really harmful for the time64
bootstrap.
This was added on request by Steve, to help with the time64 changes.
When you turn it on again,
- please provide an opt-out option.
This is a bug, which I should fix.
- turn it on on all architectures, so that everbody
can reproduce the effects.
I'd be fine with that.
- before turning it on again, please do an archive wide
test rebuild and file bug reports for it.
My impression is that this was done as part of the time64 checks? If
not, and the consensus is to disable the flag, I'm very unlikely to
drive this, and someone else will need to do those rebuilds and post
results.
I can do that, but we will need a stable dpkg version and a dpkg upload
providing that setting on amd64 without time64 set. Then I'll ask Lucas
for two test rebuilds (at this stage, that would be testing).
Doing test rebuilds with time64 enabled on testing doesn't make sense
for now, and unstable is too unstable.
I think making the opt-out functional might be enough to help with
this, and I could upload a fix later today, which would not disarm
this safety net for the time64 transition. But at this point I don't
mind either way, and if people prefer disabling the warning then I can
do that instead.
at least for heimdal, three people spent several hours looking for the
cause of the failure. I'm not sure we want these kind of delays for the
transition.
Matthias
