Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition

From	Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.ports.arm, linux.debian.security, linux.debian.devel.release
Subject	Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition
Date	2024-08-16 00:30 +0200
Message-ID	<JbR8J-5hhR-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi,

while investigating a test failure in ksh93u+m, it became clear that
packages last built before the time_t-64bit transition can have
latent bugs.
They might very well now FTBFS or fail at runtime (autopkgtest time
or later).

I believe FTBFS are bugs are probably caught by periodic rebuilds
done by Lucas, Santiago et al.

However I am not aware of any autopkgtests ran against these
rebuilds.

In the case of ksh93u+m, the tests pass in version 1.0.8-1 (built
before t64 transition), but fail once that unchanged source is
rebuilt.

I would suggest to rebuild _all_ binary packages last built before
the t64 transition to catch such problems, before releasing trixie.


I will not pursue this any further but hope the ARM porters can pick
up this topic.

Chris

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Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2024-08-16 00:30 +0200
  Re: Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> - 2024-08-16 10:30 +0200
    Re: Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2024-11-27 23:50 +0100
  Re: Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha016@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 00:30 +0100

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