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Re: ncurses 5 and scwm



Francesco Tapparo <cesco@ntt.it> writes:

> Hi, I maintain SCWM for Debian.
> 
> I saw that the new version of ncurses (5.0) is part of Debian now.
> SCWM does not use this library, but an helper program does: scwmrepl is a
> tool to directly send scheme command to a running SCWM session and use
> ncurses.
> Should I upload a new version of scwm linked to the ncurses 5?
> 

As I understand it, base packages need to be rebuilt with ncurses5 and 
other packages should be, but they're not required to be.  It seems
like it'd be a good idea to rebuild with ncurses 5 and upload the new
version since it avoids a dependency on the earlier version of
ncurses.  

> cheers
> 
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