Dear maintainer,

As part of the 64-bit time_t transition required to support 32-bit
architectures in 2038 and beyond
(https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time), we have identified
afterstep as a source package shipping runtime libraries whose ABI
either is affected by the change in size of time_t, or could not be
analyzed via abi-compliance-checker (and therefore to be on the safe
side we assume is affected).

To ensure that inconsistent combinations of libraries with their
reverse-dependencies are never installed together, it is necessary to
have a library transition, which is most easily done by renaming the
runtime library package.

Since turning on 64-bit time_t is being handled centrally through a change
to the default dpkg-buildflags (https://bugs.debian.org/1037136), it is
important that libraries affected by this ABI change all be uploaded close
together in time.  Therefore I have prepared a 0-day NMU for afterstep
which will initially be uploaded to experimental if possible, then to
unstable after packages have cleared binary NEW.

Please find the patch for this NMU attached.

If you have any concerns about this patch, please reach out ASAP.  Although
this package will be uploaded to experimental immediately, there will be a
period of several days before we begin uploads to unstable; so if information
becomes available that your package should not be included in the transition,
there is time for us to amend the planned uploads.

It appears an additional change to debian/rules was required, which wasn't
autodetected by the conversion script.  Please find an updated debdiff
attached.

Apologies, an oversight in the conversion script caused us to fail to update
strict versioned dependencies on the previous package name.  Please find
attached a fixed patch.

This has also now been uploaded to experimental.

Well, that package ftbfs, so that's no good. :/  Please find attach a fixed
(and tested) patch.

Dear maintainer,

Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t
transition.  This patch is being uploaded to unstable.

Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard
against accidental backports with a wrong ABI.

Thanks!

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
afterstep, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1061875@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> (supplier of updated afterstep package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:30:01 +0000
Source: afterstep
Architecture: source
Version: 2.2.12-17.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: 1061875
Changes:
 afterstep (2.2.12-17.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Rename libraries for 64-bit time_t transition.  Closes: #1061875
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