Hi Steve, On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 3:11 PM Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > [...] > 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 pcp > 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.
Thanks for preparing the patch, sorry for not getting back to you sooner (I've been away). I have discussed with other PCP maintainers and we'd prefer an approach where we simply exclude PCP from the few remaining 32 bit platforms, from the next major release onward. This is consistent with the approach taken with other distributions and avoids the package name mangling and general user confusion that will result for our packages. > [...] if information > becomes available that your package should not be included in the transition, > there is time for us to amend the planned uploads. cheers. -- Nathan
