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Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?



On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:46:19PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:31:16AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 at 09:28:24 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Why not? This seems like the type of problem that SONAMEs are made for.
> What am I missing?

SONAMEs are set by the upstream developer in their build system

Yes, I am aware of that, thank you. I meant to say that this feels like
something upstream could do a SONAME bump for.

I'm wondering why they chose not to.

You'd have to bump the soname for almost every library on the system.


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