[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#1062461: Bug#1062461: itcl3: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Graham,

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 6:57 PM Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Source: itcl3
> Version: 3.4.4-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch pending
> Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade
> User: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: time-t
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> 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
> itcl3 as a source package shipping runtime libraries whose ABI
> either is affected by the change in size of time_t, or could not be
> analyzed via abi-compliance-checker (and therefore to be on the safe
> side we assume is affected).

Can you elaborate how exactly you determined that itcl3 is affected by
time_t size change? As far as I can see in the sources, it doesn't use
time_t at all.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan