On 6 February 2024 at 06:43, Steve Langasek wrote:
| Source: gretl
| Version: 2023c-2
| Severity: serious
| Tags: patch pending sid trixie
| Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade
| User: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
| Usertags: time-t
|
| NOTICE: these changes must not be uploaded to unstable yet!
|
| Dear maintainer,
|
| As part of the 64-bit time_t transition required to support 32-bit
| architectures in 2038 and beyond
| (https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time), we have identified
| gretl 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).
|
| To ensure that inconsistent combinations of libraries with their
| reverse-dependencies are never installed together, it is necessary to
| have a library transition, which is most easily done by renaming the
| runtime library package.
|
| Since turning on 64-bit time_t is being handled centrally through a change
| to the default dpkg-buildflags (https://bugs.debian.org/1037136), it is
| important that libraries affected by this ABI change all be uploaded close
| together in time. Therefore I have prepared a 0-day NMU for gretl
| which will initially be uploaded to experimental if possible, then to
| unstable after packages have cleared binary NEW.
|
| 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.

Thanks, Steve.

I applied the patch to my repo and committed to salsa. Gretl updates infrequently enough so that a transition to unstable is very likely to happen before a new upstream.

Cheers, Dirk

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Dear maintainer,

Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t
transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable.

Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard
against accidental backports with a wrong ABI.

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

diff -Nru gretl-2023c/debian/changelog gretl-2023c/debian/changelog
--- gretl-2023c/debian/changelog 2024-02-03 17:33:53.000000000 +0000
+++ gretl-2023c/debian/changelog 2024-02-28 23:38:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+gretl (2023c-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Rename libraries for 64-bit time_t transition. Closes: #1063320
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:38:53 +0000
+
gretl (2023c-2) unstable; urgency=medium

* debian/rules: Add '--enable-build-addons' to enable shipping gretl
diff -Nru gretl-2023c/debian/control gretl-2023c/debian/control
--- gretl-2023c/debian/control 2024-02-03 15:13:50.000000000 +0000
+++ gretl-2023c/debian/control 2024-02-28 23:38:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 4.6.2
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libgtk-3-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libreadline-dev, zlib1g-dev, libxml2-dev, gnuplot-x11, libgmp-dev, libfreetype-dev, libpng-dev, libblas-dev, liblapack-dev, libxslt1-d

On 29 February 2024 at 00:20, Steve Langasek wrote:
| Dear maintainer,
|
| Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t
| transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable.
|
| Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard
| against accidental backports with a wrong ABI.

Thanks a lot for managing this well. I replaced the earlier patch with this one and force-pushed over the previous commit. The repo is current.

Really appreciate the handling of the 64-bit time_t issue by all.

Cheers, Dirk

| Thanks!
|
|
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: trixie/sid
| APT prefers unstable
| APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
| Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
|
| Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
| Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
| Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
| Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
| x[DELETED ATTACHMENT nmu_gretl.debdiff, plain text]

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