Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > You're perfectly right that this is an imperfect solution. A correct > upstream solution would be to define private "off_t" types like the ones in > zlib, and export those as the interface instead of off_t itself. But in the > meantime, I think this change is the closest we can get to correct behavior > in the distro, and doesn't break anything not already broken.
So, it make it short, we can add this patch but should keep it as Debian-specific. I'll include it, then, and will mention in the headers that it is Debian specific. From your comments, I understand this still warrants an upstream bug report...which you actually half-wrote above..:-)
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