control: tags -1 pending bug is fixed in the git repos
On Sat, 21 Sep 2024, 23:21 Richard Lewis, < richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sept 2024 at 08:57, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On 18.09.24 20:03, Richard Lewis wrote: > > > Thanks, this is a consequence of the 64 bit time_t transition which has > > > replaced the wtmp/utmp/lastlog files > > > > the 64bit time_t transition affected 32bit architectures only. This > > issue is seen on some 64bit architectures only. Are you sure about your > > reasoning? > > As i understand it, (although i couldnt find this explained anywhere) > - on the 64 bit architectures, lastlog, and wtmp have been > transitioned to something incompatible (that will work after 2028 - > it's a reasonable change, im sure) > This breaks some assumptions in chkrootkit, and causes the tests > fail (except for risc64 which seems to also be affected by something > else - possibly a bug in ionice but > i am not sure.) > - the 32 bit arch's presumably continue to use the old mechanisms so > the tests continue to pass > > that's what i see on ci.debian.net anyway. > (pretty close to a fix) >
