On 2024-02-05 Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> Graham Inggs <gin...@debian.org> writes:

>> we have identified nettle as a source package shipping runtime
>> libraries whose ABI either is affected by the change in size of
>> time_t, or could not be analyzed via abi-compliance-checker (and
>> therefore to be on the safe side we assume is affected).

[...]
> However, this code is in the *libhogweed* so-file, so transitioning
> *libnettle* is probably not needed.
[...]

The analysis looked at the headers and ...
|  In multi-library packages, there is no reliable way to map from a set of
|  headers in a dev package to specific shared libraries in a runtime library
|  package that's not additionally computationally prohibitive; we therefore
|  conservatively assume that if any headers from a source package show
|  time_t ABI changes, all the runtime library packages from the source
|  package are affected by the transition.

cu Andreas

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