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

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 05/08/2021 22:09, Robert Hancock via buildroot wrote:
> A heads up to the Buildroot community about a significant bug that has been
> found in versions 3.20 and newer of the gpsd package, and which is fixed in
> version 3.23 (not yet released, supposed to be shortly):
> 
> https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/issues/144
> 
> This will cause the calculated GPS time (and NTP time, if synchronizing to it)
> to jump from 2021 back to 2002 when GPS week 2180 arrives on October 24, 2021,
> with potentially disastrous results for applications depending on accurate time
> keeping.
> 
> A patch has now been added to the gpsd repository to fix it (note that the
> commit message incorrectly refers to 2020 rather than 2021 as pointed out by a
> commenter): 
> https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/commit/7f30d88d04dc62b8bd6265ad1d09d72d220f97f6
> 
> 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?

 Regards,
 Arnout

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