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by zinekeller
774 days ago
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I would initially assume that the problem is due to compatibility concerns (like NFS3 requiring 32-bit timestamps), but is instead a rather Debian-specific problem: Or we can do library transitions for the set of all libraries that reference time_t in their ABI; this is a bit more work for everyone in the short term because it will impact testing migration across all archs rather than being isolated to a single port, but it’s on the order of 500 library packages which is comparable to other ABI transitions we’ve done in the past (e.g. ldbl https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01173.html).
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It is Debian specific because Debian is one of the rare distro which keeps supporting 32 bit systems. The others don't even bother, it's all 64 bit now, where the year 2038 problem doesn't exist at all.