[Android-tools-devel] Bug#1062206: android-libaapt, android-libandroidfw: identified for time_t transition but no ABI in shlibs

[Steve Langasek]

Package: android-libandroidfw
Version: 1:14~beta1-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
Usertags: time-t

Hi Umang,

Analysis of the archive for the 64-bit time_t transition[0][1] identifies
android-libandroidfw as a package shipping a library whose ABI changes on
32-bit architectures with 64-bit time_t.

However, android-libandroidfw's shlibs file declares a dependency on a
library package name that contains no ABI information:

$ cat DEBIAN/shlibs
libandroidfw 0 android-libandroidfw
$

It is therefore not obvious that we should rename the package to
'android-libandroidfwt64' as part of this transition.

Looking at the archive, there are packages that depend on this library, aapt
and split-select.  Despite being built from the same source package, they do
not have a strict versioned dependency on android-libandroidfw but instead
use the shlibs.

Since there is no self-evident thing to do with the library package name
here, we will not be handling this package as part of the mass NMUs. 
Instead I am filing a serious bug because partial upgrades from bookworm to
trixie on 32-bit architectures (upgrading android-libandroidfw without also
upgrading aapt, split-select) will result in ABI skew and may result in
broken behavior.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/01/msg00041.html
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