Re: More ncurses...

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> There is somehow a glitch we have to solve in the pre/post-inst/rm 
> scripts for ncurses and potentially for readline.
> My bash is now (and should be in the future, maybe even with shared 
> readline):
> 
> root@ernie:tty1:/lib# ldd /bin/bash
>         libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18
> 
> and don't like to be invoked without libncurses.so.3.0 handy.  Is it
> really ok to move libncurses.so.3.0 to libncurses.so.3.0.new in pre
> --- why is this TRT?  Upgrading libc
>   5.2.16-1 -> 5.2.16-2 -> 5.2.16-3 -> 5.2.18-0
> seems to work, but ncurses
>   3.0-1.9.8a-2 -> 3.0-1.9.8a-3 -> 3.0-1.9.8a-3
> left me with /lib/libncurses.3.0.new but without /lib/libncurses.3.0.
> 
> This has to be avoided at all costs!

This is why I'd like to hear Ian Jackson's thoughts on adding special,
installation support for shared libraries directly into dpkg.

David
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