Bug#1063051: vnlog: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 04:47:39PM -0800, Dima Kogan wrote:
> Hi. vnlog does not depend on time_t. Is it too late to stop this
> update?

> The abi-compliance-checker failure is here:

>   https://adrien.dcln.fr/misc/armhf-time_t/2024-02-01T09%3A53%3A00/logs/libvnlog-dev/base/log.txt

> That error message says what the problem is: you are not supposed to
> #include vnlog.h directly. Instead you're supposed to use the
> "vnl-gen-header" tool (also in the "libvnlog-dev" package) to produce
> usable headers that themselves #include vnlog.h. For instance:

>   vnl-gen-header 'int w' 'uint8_t x' 'char* y' 'double z' > vnlog_fields_generated.h

> If you then run vnlog_fields_generated.h (which, again, #includes
> vnlog.h) through abi-compliance-checker, you'll see that it passes.
> vnl-gen-header doesn't support any time-related types, so this is y2k38
> safe.

If you are confident that it's y2k38 safe, feel free to revert the NMU
(which has already been uploaded but not yet accepted).

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