[Buildroot] Serious time jump bug found in gpsd 3.20+

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Aug 6 20:55:43 UTC 2021


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >> I am not sure if the best solution for Buildroot is to just update the package
 >> when released, or apply the specific patch to fix the issue? Currently
 >> Buildroot master is on 3.21 and the 2021.02.x LTS branch is on 3.20, both of
 >> which are affected.

 >  For master, I think we can still afford to update to 3.23.

 >  For 2021.05.x and 2021.02.x, we'll need to backport the patch. Unless if Peter
 > thinks that in this case (since upstream's policy is "always update to latest")
 > it's OK to just bump it there as well?

The patch kind of looks big and scary to me, so I would prefer to move
to 3.23 for the stable branches as well.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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