Summary of the DebConf 2038 BoF

Steve McIntyre reports from a BoF session on the year-2038 problem atDebConf 17. "It's important that we work on fixing issues *now* to stop peoplebuilding broken things that will bite us. We all expect that our owncomputer systems will be fine by 2038; Debian systems will be fixedand working! We'll have rebuilt the world with new interfaces andfound the issues. The issues are going to be in the IoT, with systemsthat we won't be able to simply rebuild/verify/test - they'll fail. Weneed to get the underlying systems right ASAP for those systems."