Hi! On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 02:35:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: tags -1 - pending
> On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 19:36:09 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Source: libaio > > Version: 0.3.113-5 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: patch pending > > Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade > > User: debian-...@lists.debian.org > > Usertags: time-t > > > Please find the patch for this NMU attached. > > > > If you have any concerns about this patch, please reach out ASAP. Although > > this package will be uploaded to experimental immediately, there will be a > > period of several days before we begin uploads to unstable; so if > > information > > becomes available that your package should not be included in the > > transition, > > there is time for us to amend the planned uploads. > > Unfortunately I just realized this patch is not enough. :/ This library > emits direct syscalls, so these are going to be broken with the time_t > size change, the syscalls need to be updated. I'm checking how to best > fix this, perhaps even via dual-ABI, to avoid the transition > altogether, but let's see. > > I guess this might have been missed for other packages that that emit > direct syscalls and are not using the time64 variants for those > already. Just as a status update, I've got most of this working, but upstream does not tend to be very responsive, so I think I'll do a proper SONAME bump with my proposed changes for the dual-ABI, to avoid any potential clashes with anything that gets upstream, and to make a revert easier, by reusing the t64 library names. And then once/if this gets merged upstream I can revert that and simply do the proper dual-ABI on the old SONAME and package names, as if nothing had happened (except for the required rebuilds). Hopefully I can have something for upload today or tomorrow, hoping that this delay up to now, does not block too many things. :/ Thanks, Guillem
