Re: ELF ncurses

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

> I am trying to wrap a new version of the miscutils package for ELF.
> It depends on ncurses, however, and I can't find debianized ncurses
> libs that work with the stuff in debian-1.0.

I've uploaded an interim, static libs-only, ELF version until the new
maintainer can take over.

35396e830f87b0d12c67c9e86ac20926  ncurses-1.9.7a-1.diff.gz
113c76a1e4730763278b84ebd69db960  ncurses-1.9.7a-1.tar.gz
fdd1162bfd8d4f7c725e8d01f4e186c7  ncurses-developer-1.9.7a-1.deb
8c50d377c4be8a32d7fdfa54802005ce  ncurses-runtime-1.9.7a-1.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 david    david        3709 Nov 19 00:57 ncurses-1.9.7a-1.diff.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 david    david      681052 Nov 19 01:05 ncurses-1.9.7a-1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 david    david      336466 Nov 19 01:09 ncurses-developer-1.9.7a-1.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 david    david      446831 Nov 19 01:13 ncurses-runtime-1.9.7a-1.deb

> Also, the ELF ncurses in the experimental directory seems to use
> the wrong soname.

I have some good news and some bad news.  The ncurses developers have
added support for ELF shared libs, including assigning version
numbers, to the main distribution.  Unfortunately, they haven't shown
a strong commitement to maintaining binary comptaibility.  The major
version number has already changed once.

David
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