Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?
Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:
> So maybe just recommend people to move to 64-bit architectures and put
> 32-bit applications in a time namespace so they believe they are still
> in 2001 ;-) 32-bit architectures will probably still be useful in
> embedded contexts for a long time and there it might be easier to just
> change the ABI, but for a general-purpose distribution we start seeing
> more and more problems and I don't really see us supporting them as a
> full architecture in 10+ years.
If we go down this path, can we make cross-grading a supported feature for
the next stable release? I'm sure I'm not the only one who is stuck with
continuously-upgraded i386 hosts who has been wanting to switch but has
been waiting until cross-grading is a little bit less scary.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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