On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 15:24 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > > when introducing a new soname (no just a new package name), then one > > should move to time64 even on i386 ? > > If you know all consumers of the package will be using appropriate > compiler flags to get 64-bit time_t, then this is fine. > > Otherwise provider and consumer would disagree about ABI and likely not > work fully correct. > > > But fundamentally, how do we know how third-party binaries are > > compiled ? > > They have to use `dpkg-buildflags` with equivalent ABI settings.
Third-party binaries might not be build on a Debian-based distro... Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
