Bug#941487: gconf: autopkgtest fails with libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62)
Source: gconf
Version: 3.2.6-5
Severity: serious
Justification: https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt §6a
Tags: patch
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf/merge_requests/1
With the recent upload of GLib 2.62 to unstable, gconf's autopkgtest has
started failing:
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/g/gconf/3045304/log.gz
> /usr/include/gconf/2/gconf/gconf-value.h:139:3: error: ‘GTime’ is deprecated: Use 'GDateTime' instead [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
> 139 | GTime mod_time; /* time of the modification */
> | ^~~~~
> /usr/include/gconf/2/gconf/gconf-value.h:144:1: error: ‘GTime’ is deprecated: Use 'GDateTime' instead [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
> 144 | GTime gconf_meta_info_mod_time (GConfMetaInfo *gcmi);
> | ^~~~~
> /usr/include/gconf/2/gconf/gconf-value.h:153:46: error: ‘GTime’ is deprecated: Use 'GDateTime' instead [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
> 153 | GTime mod_time);
> | ^~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
GTime is a gint32 (not a time_t, although it happens to be equivalent on
older 32-bit architectures) counting seconds since the beginning of 1970.
As such it is not Y2038-safe.
The deprecation warnings can be disabled for code that depends on
gconf by wrapping a block with the G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
and G_GNUC_END_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS macros, as was done in Ubuntu patch
3.2.6-5ubuntu3: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf/merge_requests/1
Regards,
smcv
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