Right, thats the point, if you recompile a library with 64-bit-time, then it is ABI-incompatible with the 32-bit-time version of the library, so everything that

Right, thats the point, if you recompile a library with 64-bit-time, then it is ABI-incompatible with the 32-bit-time version of the library, so everything that uses the library would break unless you change the library ABI number and recompile everything that uses it. It would be possible to rename every single library that will be ABI-incompatible, but it would be a lot of work distributed across a lot of individual packages/maintainers and so a rebootstrap with a new system-wide ABI under a new arch name might be less work overall, especially when for many things just a recompile fixes it. There will still be a lot of stuff that needs patches though of course. Some threads about Y2038 from Debian folks: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Y06EebE9aylMcSJk@alf.mars https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Y06EebE9aylMcSJk@alf.m... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/YzOs11RPkj30iFGj@atmark-techno.com https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/YzOs11RPkj30iFGj@atmar... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAK8P3a0EtmgDRbDzBhOOZk_kyWmCm1aqvSxwUeY0R7tbCSxaKg@mail.gmail.com https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAK8P3a0EtmgDRbDzBhOOZ... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20200204131410.GF3043@tack.einval.com https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20200204131410.GF3043@... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87pnm7dpe6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87pnm7dpe6.fsf@mid.den... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170901235854.ds4hffumd2ktggau@tack.einval.com https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170901235854.ds4hffu... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/54B989EC.1070704@p10link.net https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/54B989EC.1070704@p10li... https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAC58tq_ZsjvTE6fgDWtw=QfHUwHzTAQ+bYimM4gEr7X+0pxDjw@mail.gmail.com https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAC58tq_ZsjvTE6fgDWtw=... http://lists.debian.org/20100331022204.6338.63920.reportbug@skydancer.freeside.biz http://lists.debian.org/20100331022204.6338.63920.reportbug@...