Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?
Wouter Verhelst, le ven. 07 févr. 2020 14:46:19 +0200, a ecrit:
> 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.
Because the ABI change is voluntary on the application build side. The
existing libc.so is ABI-compatible with previously-built applications.
Samuel
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