Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?
* Michael Stone:
> 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.
And make sure that upstreams introduce per-architecture sonames,
otherwise we have soname bumps all across the board on 64-bit
architectures, too.
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