Bug#1061954: frog: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi Maarten e.a.,

On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 06:29:20PM +0100, Maarten van Gompel wrote:
> On Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 2:31 PM CET, Lukas Märdian wrote:
> > 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
<snip>
> 
> Thanks for your patch. I am currently in the progress of upgrading these
> packages to the new upstream sources after a long hiatus. This would
> involve a library transition anyway (libfrog2 -> libfrog3). Is it
> sufficient if I include  'Provides: ${t64:Provides}' for the new
> libfrog3 package to accomodate this transition? I just did this in
> commit 2bbda8d92d40b96a216e8d8db972a9589f8df02f:
>   
>   https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/frog/-/commit/2bbda8d92d40b96a216e8d8db972a9589f8df02f
> 
> Perhaps that also removes the need for the oddly named frog2t64 package?
> If not, I'll apply your patch and rebase my changes on top of it.

Afaik the plan is to keep the binary packages named lib<foo>t64 (reading
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time ); this helps executing the
transition.

HTH, Bye,

Joost