Re: Bug#55448 acknowledged by developer (recompile bsdgames with ncurses5)
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 09:23:01PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> Well, I recompiled almost every package for sparc against not only
> libncurses5, but libreadline2. This took a matter of 2 days and I have yet
> to hear about any problems. Further more, because of the autobuilders, a
> lot of bug reports have already been filed concerning packages that do not
> use <curses.h> (ie. they do not check for the proper header in autoconf
> or the like). This is not as hard as you try to make it, and it is also
> already underway for some of the non-i386 ports.
Oh, good. Someone brought up the famous proof by "it works for me." I
suppose that means that we no longer have to worry about problems with
any packages due to this change, we don't have to worry about testing
all the packages that have a major library change during freeze, and we
can generally ignore the guidelines we set up to try to maintain package
stability before we release. What a relief.
--
Mike Stone
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