[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#1062381: Bug#1062380: libisoburn: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 11:04:29AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> i'm the upstream and help with preparing the Debian packages.
> So i assume that any needed action in this case is up to my sponsor
> Dominique Dumont (Cc'd).

> But:

> Are you aware that the effort to switch to 64 bit time_t is not worth much
> in a ISO 9660 producing software, even on amd64, as long as

>   https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/isofs/isofs.h

> has int as return type of the ISO-9660-to-Unix-time function

>   extern int iso_date(u8 *, int);

> (implemented in fs/isofs/util.c) ?

> I once made a successful attempt to get the attention of parts of the
> kernel community:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221024135517.7d40b96a206020eca03e3802@linux-foundation.org/t/
> But as it looks, it never made it into the torvalds repo.

Well, that's a different problem than making sure libraries which expose
time-related types in their ABIs are using 64-bit types consistently and
don't have crashes at runtime due to ABI skew between library and caller!

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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