Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote:
> The -dev package provides virtual ncurses-dev package but it also
> needs to conflict with it.
Oops. You told me that. Done.
> The symlinks for lib*.so are in the runtime package. They should be
> in the -dev package.
Makes sense. Done.
> The shared libraries for form, menu and panel are in /lib. They
> should probably be in /usr/lib unless and until a boot-critical
> program needs them /lib.
Well, since _nothing_ needs them right now...Done.
> The symlink for libcurses.a is wrong. It should point to libncurses.a.
Done.
> There is no symlink for libcurses.so. There should be one in the -dev
> package.
OK. Jeff Noxon mentioned that a link for libtermcap.so might also be in
order---thoughts?
> The runtime package installs the shared libraries as lib*.so.3.0.new
> and then renames them to lib*.so.3.0 in the postinst script. This is
> fine for not disturbing running programs when the package is being
> upgraded, but there is no provision for deleting the files when the
> package is removed. Again, I'd like to hear Ian Jackson's thoughts on
> adding special installation support for shared libraries to dpkg.
For the moment I guess I'll re-rename them in the prerm.
Mike.
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