[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#1061346: geany: identified for time_t transition but no ABI in shlibs

[Steve Langasek]

Package: geany
Version: 2.0-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
Usertags: time-t

Dear maintainers,

Analysis of the archive for the 64-bit time_t transition[0][1] identifies
geany as an affected package, on the basis that the headers could not
be compiled and analyzed out of the box using abi-compliance-checker[2], so
we have to assume it's affected.

However, geany's shlibs file declares a dependency on a library package name
that contains no ABI information:

$ cat DEBIAN/shlibs
libgeany 0 geany (>= 2.0)
$

It is therefore not obvious that we should rename the package to 'geany-t64'
as part of this transition.

Looking at the archive, there are packages built from the separate
geany-plugins source package which depend on this library.

Since there is no self-evident thing to do with the library package name
here, we will not be handling this package as part of the mass NMUs.
Instead I am filing a serious bug because partial upgrades from bookworm to
trixie on 32-bit architectures will result in ABI skew and may result in
broken behavior.

Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/01/msg00041.html
[2] https://adrien.dcln.fr/misc/armhf-time_t/2024-01-17/logs/geany-common/base/log.txt
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