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Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition

From Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition
Date 2024-03-04 17:50 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 04:08:37PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Copying context from elsewhere in the thread, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > Are there solutions in the space of having glib2.0-0 continue to exist
> > as a package depended on by glib2.0-0t64 or depending on the new library
> > allowing you to replace the postrm?
> 
> to which I replied:
> 
> If libglib2.0-0 continues to exist, then packages that expect the affected
> entry points to have 32-bit time_t will still have their dependencies
> satisfied, but then when they call the affected entry points, they will
> crash, because their time_t is not the same size as GLib's. So as far
> as I can see, this is functionally equivalent to reverting the rename:
> to be correct, it would have to be accompanied by versioned Breaks on
> every package that calls into the affected entry points.

Sorry, yes, because we're transitioning the package name but not the 
soname. My mistake.

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Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 13:00 +0100
  Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 13:30 +0100
  Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-03-01 16:10 +0100
    Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 16:50 +0100
    Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 17:20 +0100
      Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 18:50 +0100
        Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-02 21:30 +0100
          Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-02 23:10 +0100
          Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-03 03:10 +0100
          Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-06 13:10 +0100
  Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> - 2024-03-04 01:00 +0100
    Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2024-03-04 17:00 +0100
      Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-03-04 17:20 +0100
        Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> - 2024-03-04 17:50 +0100

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