Bug#964220: vdr: FTBFS with glibc 2.31 (uses removed stime function)

[Aurelien Jarno]

control: tag -1 + pending

Dear maintainer,

On 2020-07-13 23:41, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> control: severity -1 serious
> 
> On 2020-07-03 22:12, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Source: vdr
> > Version: 2.4.1-4
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch upstream
> > 
> > Dear maintainer,
> > 
> > vdr fail to build from source with glibc 2.31:
> > 
> > | g++ -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DREMOTE_KBD -DSDNOTIFY -DLIRC_DEVICE=\"/var/run/lirc/lircd\" -DVIDEODIR=\"/var/lib/video\" -DCONFDIR=\"/var/lib/vdr\" -DARGSDIR=\"/etc/vdr/conf.d\" -DCACHEDIR=\"/var/cache/vdr\" -DRESDIR=\"/usr/share/vdr\" -DPLUGINDIR=\"/usr/lib/vdr/plugins\" -DLOCDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16   -o eitscan.o eitscan.c
> > | eit.c: In constructor ‘cTDT::cTDT(const u_char*)’:
> > | eit.c:394:13: error: ‘stime’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘ctime’?
> > |   394 |         if (stime(&dvbtim) == 0)
> > |       |             ^~~~~
> > |       |             ctime
> > | make[2]: *** [Makefile:135: eit.o] Error 1
> > | make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > | make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> > | dh_auto_build: error: make -j4 "INSTALL=install --strip-program=true" PREFIX=/usr VIDEODIR=/var/lib/video LIBDIR=/usr/lib/vdr/plugins SDNOTIFY=1 VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2
> > | make[1]: *** [debian/rules:17: override_dh_auto_build] Error 25
> > | make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> > | make: *** [debian/rules:14: build] Error 2
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2
> > 
> > The full build log is available there:
> > http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/06/24/vdr_2.4.1-4_unstable_glibc-exp.log
> > 
> > The stime function has been marked as obsolete for some time, and since
> > glibc 2.31 it is no longer available to newly linked binaries. The
> > clock_settime function should be used instead.
> > 
> > You will find attached a patch fixing that. It would be nice if it can
> > be fixed relatively soon so that we can start the transition.
> 
> Note that glibc 2.31 is now in unstable. I am therefore increasing the
> severity to serious.

I have prepared an NMU for vdr (versioned as 2.4.1-4.), fixing the build
issue with glibc 2.31. You will find the diff attached. I have uploaded
it to DELAYED/7. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer
or cancel it altogether.

Regards,
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien at aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net
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