From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 02:18:57 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: maint: require support for post-2038 timestamps
X-Git-Tag: v9.3~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ffd62ab92c259d513a419b4078a45f1c658dc774;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: require support for post-2038 timestamps

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

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9d7836d7b3..0de16df305 100644
--- 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 c122354a1d..eca4edb730 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ gnulib_modules="
   xstrtol-error
   xstrtold
   xstrtoumax
-  year2038
+  year2038-required
   yesno
 "