Re: busybox FTBFS with glibc 2.31 (references to obsolete 'stime')

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Hi,

On 2020-03-30 09:17, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: busybox
> Version: 1:1.30.1-4
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal ubuntu-patch
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> In Ubuntu, the busybox package has begun to FTBFS because Ubuntu has moved
> to glibc 2.31, which has obsoleted the stime() function and busybox still
> calls this function.
> 
> The attached patch has been uploaded to Ubuntu, replacing the calls to
> stime() with clock_settime(), per the glibc upstream documentation.
> 
> This is not a serious bug today in Debian because glibc 2.31 is only in
> experimental, but at some point it will become a serious FTBFS.

It would be nice if this bug could be fixed as it is currently blocking
the glibc 2.31 transition.

Thanks,
Aurelien

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