maint: require support for post-2038 timestamps

* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Replace year2038 with
year2038-required.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9d7836d7b3e30e35bacc175535eb7f1477d7681c..0de16df3057496a93368901f631b656678b4a544 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Previously it deduced the size of inputs while leaving the offset unchanged.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]
 
+  Coreutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038
+  on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the
+  build procedure now rejects these configurations.
+  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
   'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index c122354a1d52d632b1b34461927158825183b3d1..eca4edb730d04fc3aacd6cc2dae2af8e74a711fd 100644 (file)
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ gnulib_modules="
   xstrtol-error
   xstrtold
   xstrtoumax
-  year2038
+  year2038-required
   yesno
 "