Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works?
> I'm currently stuck with a hard to maintain Sid system.
> It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to
> install new packages.
>
> I've looked e.g. into gnutls (on amd64), and libgnutls30t64 (3.8.3-1.1)
> as well as libgnutls30 (3.8.3-1) both install
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30.37.1.
> Does the new libgnutls.so.30.37.1 provide both ABIs?
>
>    Detlef

  it's an on-going transition, it may be a few weeks before
things settle down.

  that's what happens with unstable at times.

  there are the release mailing lists and the debian-devel
mailing list which will give you some idea of how things
are going.


  songbird