On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 11:45 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > When considering the future of i386, a factor that we need to bear in > mind is that there are two major use-cases for i386, with requirements > that sometimes conflict: There was another option mentioned earlier in the thread that could help resolve some aspects of these conflicts; make 32-bit arches (or just i386) support both time_t ABIs, like glibc and Linux do. The 64-bit time_t ABI would be the default but the 32-bit time_t ABI would be present for running old binaries that still kind of work with the 32-bit ABIs after 2038, or under faketime when they do not. This would be more work for Debian and a lot more work for upstreams but would be a better outcome for the diversity of uses for 32-bit. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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