[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#1063077: syslog-ng: identified for time_t transition but no ABI in shlibs

[Attila Szalay]

Hello Steve,

I do understand your concern about the time_t structure change and I
also admit that there are some room of improvement how the syslog-ng
package manage the library versioned dependency, but this is not the
solution.

Based on https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload, the binNMU should
be careful with the upload to not make the package uninstallable (You
have to make sure that your binary-only NMU doesn't render the package
uninstallable. This could happen when a source package generates arch-
dependent and arch-independent packages that have inter-dependencies
generated using dpkg's substitution variable $(Source-Version).)

there are also explicit requirements for the package maintainers, to
prevent this, by exactly doing the opposite of what the patch suggest
(https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU, declaring dependency between an arch:
all to an arch: any package: Depends: foo (>= ${source:Version}), foo
(<< ${source:Version}.1~))

Please forgive my ignorance if it is already discussed somewhere, but
it does not seems to be wise to go against the current official policy,
just because of one change.