Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?
Sam Hartman wrote:
>Steve, you're presuming that we would not create a new soname for libc6
>on architectures where we want a new time ABI.
>
>That's not at all obvious to me.
>It seems in the same level of drastic as the other options you are
>considering.
>So taking it off the table without discussion or consideration doesn't
>seem like a good call.
As Arnd has mentioned, it seems the (upstream) glibc maintainers are
not keen to change soname. The last thing we want is to diverge from
them (and hence other distros), so it's a discussion we would need to
have.
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