Debian and Y2K
According to http://www.debian.org/y2k/ there are a number of packages (some
Debian-specific) that have nobody willing to state they are year 2000
compliant.
Over the weekend I took a look at the source of some of these packages in
slink (the web page seems to only cover hamm). Some of them contain no
executables (e.g. base-files), and many have no date/time-related code in
them.
I can't see anything that could cause a year 2000 problem in the source of
the following:
base-files-2.1.0
base-passwd-2.0.3.3
bsdutils-4.4.1.1
debianutils-1.10
fdflush-1.0.0
hostname-2.04
ld.so-1.9.10
makedev-2.3.1
modconf-0.2.26
mount-2.8a
setserial-2.14
sysklogd-1.3
sysvinit-2.76
update-1.3
I'm not competent to comment on the assembler in mbr-1.0.0, but a comment in
the code implies it might not be midnight compliant.
This leaves dialog, dpkg, e2fs-progs, elvis-tiny, kbd, lilo, login, mawk,
modutils, ncurses3.4, passwd, procps, psmisc, syslinux, timezones,
util-linux and whiptail just in base.
Now, Debian can't be in the business of warranty for Y2K problems (nor can
I!), but the web page could at least indicate if someone has looked at the
code to see if there will be a difficulty. And if there are any, then users
will need patches pretty soon. In particular, nobody else is going to put up
a Y2K statement about debianutils.
Is anyone else interested in this? Red Hat has been funding black box
testing, but that's expensive and longwinded when you have the source.
Ian Redfern (redferni@logica.com).
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