On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 13:14 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What do people think here? Which do you think is the better path? Feel > free to point out things you think I may have missed. We should get > started on this soon - the longer we leave it, the more likely it is > that we'll see 2038 bugs biting people.
At least for i386, I expect it to be used mostly for legacy applications (and legacy installations). So breaking ABI by switching to a "new" architecture or by just changing major libraries like libc6 probably diminishes its value so much that there would no longer be any use for it: one could just switch to amd64 instead of i386t. So maybe just recommend people to move to 64-bit architectures and put 32-bit applications in a time namespace so they believe they are still in 2001 ;-) 32-bit architectures will probably still be useful in embedded contexts for a long time and there it might be easier to just change the ABI, but for a general-purpose distribution we start seeing more and more problems and I don't really see us supporting them as a full architecture in 10+ years. Ansgar
