Re: Changes to abi=+time64 behavior (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress)
On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Ansgar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 15:24 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > when introducing a new soname (no just a new package name), then one
> > should move to time64 even on i386 ?
>
> If you know all consumers of the package will be using appropriate
> compiler flags to get 64-bit time_t, then this is fine.
>
> Otherwise provider and consumer would disagree about ABI and likely not
> work fully correct.
>
> > But fundamentally, how do we know how third-party binaries are
> > compiled ?
>
> They have to use `dpkg-buildflags` with equivalent ABI settings.
Third-party binaries might not be build on a Debian-based distro...
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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