On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 02:27:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Two months ago, I posted with a proposal for how to handle a transition to > 64-bit time_t on 32-bit archs in the trixie cycle.
Hi, sorry I'm a bit late with this. Please note that the Perl binary interface between compiled C plugins (aka. "XS modules") and Perl itself seems to be affected as it has a time_t member "basetime" in the interpreter struct definition [1]. This came up in #1030827 last winter. My understanding is that switching to a 64-bit type will require a bump of the perlapi-5.x.x virtual package that ~600 packages depend on, and also a rename of the libperl5.xx package with another ~100 dependants. Not sure how much that is in the grand scheme of things though (and please correct me if I'm mistaken.) FWIW I haven't even tried if src:perl builds with the time64 flags yet (and how to best inject them.) Happy if somebody else wants to look at that. [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/perl/5.36.0-7/intrpvar.h/#L506 Thanks for your work, -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
