Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:14:10PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> So, we're all fine? Not so much: for our 32-bit Debian arches, we will
> need to basically rebuild the world to be 2038-safe. When we had to do
> something like this in the past, to deal with the libc5->libc6
> transition, we had an SONAME change in libc to work with. We decided
> to append the "g" tag to the names of our library binary packages to
> signal that a library was built against libc6. We can still see some
> of the effects of this in the archive, many years later
> (e.g. zlib1g). The problem now is that we will *not* have an soname
> change here to help identify code compatibility on the 32-bit front.
Why not? This seems like the type of problem that SONAMEs are made for.
What am I missing?
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