[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Year 2038 plan for rpm (#1084)

[Panu Matilainen]

All timestamps in rpm packages are 32bit and will roll over on 2038, and at least some APIs are also affected. As Enterprise distro lifespans are 10+ years, this is something that needs to be addressed in the near future.

Within rpm this can be relatively easily done using a similar approach as was used with 64bit file sizes, but that wasn't so smooth for the rest of the world which simply went on using the 32bit tags and only now are starting to notice the need to change.

One tempting possibility would be jumping to 64bit values across the board and declare new major version with that...

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