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Will this create significant issues and extra work to support Debian specifically right now? Not saying that we shouldn't bite the bullet, just curious how much
by mojo-ponderer 1y ago
Will this create significant issues and extra work to support Debian specifically right now? Not saying that we shouldn't bite the bullet, just curious how much libraries have been implicitly depending on the time type to be 32-bit.
- toast0 1y agoProbably less extra work right now than ten or twenty years ago. For one, OpenBSD (and others?) did this a while ago. If it breaks software when Debian does it, it was probably mostly broken. For another, most people are using 64-bit os and 64-bit userland. These have been running 64-bit time_t forever (or at least a long time), so it's no change there. Also, someone upthread said no change for i386 in Trixie... I don't follow Debian to know when they're planning to stop i386 releases in general, but it might not be that far away?