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Bug#495659: marked as done (base: prevent unix 2038 oveflow)

Your message dated Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:11:15 +0200
with message-id <200809101211.22285.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line closing this bugreport
has caused the Debian Bug report #495659,
regarding base: prevent unix 2038 oveflow
to be marked as done.

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Package: base
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: breaks the whole system

it should be made impossible to reach the unix overflow upcoming in
2038. There should be a facility to block entering such a date and
ignoring ntp servers or other items that may influence he system clock
that would cause the date to pass 2038. This should be altered when
there is a patch / solution to the problem on a given system. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Hi,

I'm closing this bugreport as its quite useless: foremost it's a upstream 
issue in several packages (so if you really care about this, please file 
bug_s_ upstream), second, it's still 30 years and third, this is a well known 
issue (which wont be dealt with any better or faster just because of this 
bugreport).

So in summary, leaving this bug open just prevents real issues to be visible.

As usual, if you object, please speak up, we might listen ;-)


regards,
	Holger

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