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

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 02:22:20PM +0100, Maarten van Gompel wrote:
> 
> On second thought, I read https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time and
> checked the updated Frog sources, there is no time_t exposed at all anymore
> in the new version I'm packaging.

That's nice.

> So if I understand things correctly, the new
> libfrog3 library does not need the t64 transition and I can revert
> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/frog/-/commit/2bbda8d92d40b96a216e8d8db972a9589f8df02f ?


> > 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.
> 
> I'll rebase so the libfrog2t64 patch is included, but it'll be
> immediately superseded by libfrog3.

Upcoming stable release could likely ship both frog2 and frog3.  E.g. if
testing around release-time ships binaries build-depending upon frog2, this
will happen.

Bye,

Joost