Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

[Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>]

Marco Moock wrote:

> > It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to
> > install new packages.
>
> The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to
> upgrade the packages if they depend on the t64 libs.

No, only the package names have the 't64' suffix, the libraries
still have the same name as before.
Hence my question whether the libraries provide both ABIs.

> Although, carefully read what it wants to remove. If it wants to remove
> packages you need, don't hit y.

I did this before, and it threatened to remove a number
of critical packages (like qemu).  But thanks for the tip:
I just ran it again and now it's nearly only old libraries
that are removed.

Unfortunately it will upgrade packages that I don't want to,
but now the manual upgrade actually works (it didn't some
hours ago, so waiting helps ;-)

Thanks,
  Detlef