Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de> writes:
> I just thought about how to provide a transition path if the long-term
> solution really was to get rid of integer time stamps.
I don't think anyone has suggested doing that. In fact, there's a camp
that wishes they'd become the default. I don't see that happening soon
either, in part because it seems there are still too many bugs to be
flushed out :-(. But *somebody* has to exercise the code in order to
flush out the bugs, and Debian has elected to be the pioneers here.
regards, tom lane