Source: ddccontrol
Version: 1.0.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: patch pending
Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade
User: debian-...@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
ddccontrol 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).

To ensure that inconsistent combinations of libraries with their
reverse-dependencies are never installed together, it is necessary to
have a library transition, which is most easily done by renaming the
runtime library package.

Since turning on 64-bit time_t is being handled centrally through a change
to the default dpkg-buildflags (https://bugs.debian.org/1037136), it is
important that libraries affected by this ABI change all be uploaded close
together in time.  Therefore I have prepared a 0-day NMU for ddccontrol
which will initially be uploaded to experimental if possible, then to
unstable after packages have cleared binary NEW.

Please find the patch for this NMU attached.

If you have any concerns about this patch, please reach out ASAP.  Although
this package will be uploaded to experimental immediately, there will be a
period of several days before we begin uploads to unstable; so if information
becomes available that your package should not be included in the transition,
there is time for us to amend the planned uploads.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-15-generic (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/changelog ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/changelog
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/changelog   2024-01-29 10:54:24.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/changelog   2024-01-31 00:04:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ddccontrol (1.0.1-1.1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Rename libraries for 64-bit time_t transition.
+
+ -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <mwhud...@debian.org>  Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:04:53 +0000
+
 ddccontrol (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/control ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/control
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/control     2024-01-12 11:16:43.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/control     2024-01-31 00:04:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 Architecture: i386 amd64 ia64 alpha arm armel armhf loong64
 Multi-Arch: same
 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
-Depends: libddccontrol0 (= ${binary:Version}),
+Depends: libddccontrol0t64 (= ${binary:Version}),
  ${misc:Depends}
 Description: development files for ddccontrol
  DDCcontrol is a tool used to control monitor parameters, like brightness
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@
  .
  This package provides the development files.
 
-Package: libddccontrol0
+Package: libddccontrol0t64
+Provides: ${t64:Provides}
+Replaces: libddccontrol0
+Breaks: libddccontrol0 (<< ${source:Version})
 Section: libs
 Architecture: i386 amd64 ia64 alpha arm armel armhf loong64
 Multi-Arch: same
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.install 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.install
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.install      2023-10-19 
09:38:33.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.install      1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-${env:modulesdir}/ddccontrol-i2c-dev.conf
-usr/lib/*/lib*.so.*
-usr/lib/*/ddccontrol/*
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.maintscript 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.maintscript
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.maintscript  2023-10-19 
09:38:33.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.maintscript  1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-rm_conffile /etc/modules-load.d/ddccontrol-i2c-dev.conf 0.6.0-8~ libddccontrol0
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.shlibs 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.shlibs
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.shlibs       2023-10-19 
09:38:33.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0.shlibs       1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-libddccontrol 0 libddccontrol0 (>= 0.5.2-1)
-libddccontrol_dbus_client 0 libddccontrol0 (>= 0.5.2-1)
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.install 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.install
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.install   1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.install   2023-10-19 
09:38:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+${env:modulesdir}/ddccontrol-i2c-dev.conf
+usr/lib/*/lib*.so.*
+usr/lib/*/ddccontrol/*
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.lintian-overrides 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.lintian-overrides
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.lintian-overrides 1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.lintian-overrides 2024-01-31 
00:04:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libddccontrol0t64: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libddccontrol0
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.maintscript 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.maintscript
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.maintscript       1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.maintscript       2023-10-19 
09:38:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rm_conffile /etc/modules-load.d/ddccontrol-i2c-dev.conf 0.6.0-8~ libddccontrol0
diff -Nru ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.shlibs 
ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.shlibs
--- ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.shlibs    1970-01-01 
00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ddccontrol-1.0.1/debian/libddccontrol0t64.shlibs    2024-01-31 
00:04:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+libddccontrol 0 libddccontrol0t64 (>= 0.5.2-1)
+libddccontrol_dbus_client 0 libddccontrol0t64 (>= 0.5.2-1)

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