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Bug#964231: faketime: FTBFS with glibc 2.31 due to ftime deprecation

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control: severity -1 serious

On 2020-07-03 23:47, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: faketime
> Version: 0.9.7-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch upstream
> 
> faketime fails to build from source with glibc 2.31:
> 
> | gcc -c -std=gnu99 -Wall -DFAKE_STAT -Werror -Wextra timetest.c
> | ./testframe.sh functests
> | # Begin Test Suites in functests
> | 
> | # Begin functests/test_exclude_mono.sh
> | # PLATFORM=linuxlike
> | timetest.c: In function ‘main’:
> | timetest.c:143:5: error: ‘ftime’ is deprecated [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
> |   143 |     ftime(&tb);
> |       |     ^~~~~
> | In file included from timetest.c:25:
> | /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/timeb.h:39:12: note: declared here
> |    39 | extern int ftime (struct timeb *__timebuf)
> |       |            ^~~~~
> | cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> | make[2]: *** [Makefile:12: timetest.o] Error 1
> | make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> 
> The full build log is available there:
>  http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/06/24/faketime_0.9.7-3_unstable_glibc-exp.log
> 
> In glibc 2.31, the ftime function has been marked as deprecated, though
> it's still usable. however the tests are run with -Wall -Wextra -Werror,
> turning causing this deprecation into an error.
> 
> Upstream already has a fix for this issue, although the issue is wrongly
> attributed to gcc 9 instead of glibc 2.31:
> 
> https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime/commit/f19d68ea3231f1af7a6e3913dc6d3c46f73947b2
> 
> This patch applies cleanly to the version in debian and correctly fixes
> the issue. It would be nice if you can apply it relatively soon so that
> we can start the transition.

Note that glibc 2.31 is now in unstable. I am therefore increasing the
severity to serious.

Regards,
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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Bug#964231: faketime: FTBFS with glibc 2.31 due to ftime deprecation Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2020-07-04 00:00 +0200
  Bug#964231: faketime: FTBFS with glibc 2.31 due to ftime deprecation Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2020-07-13 23:50 +0200
    Bug#964231: faketime: FTBFS with glibc 2.31 due to ftime deprecation Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2020-07-26 14:00 +0200

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