Re: RFC: Removing old ncurses versions
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 9:55 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>* Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> [20010413 22:20]:
> > I'd actually LIKE to pull libncurses4 also. Some things still use
> > it, but rebuilding them should be painless. So again, does anyone
> > have closed-source applications which require either?
>
> 6 packages still depend on it. Any volunteers?
I make it a few more than 6
stephen:~$ grep-available ncurses4 | grep ^Package
Package: jmon
Package: liveice
Package: netris
Package: strn
Package: libncurses4-dev
Package: ngs-js
Package: libjs0
Package: wxd
Package: moria
Package: ucblogo
Package: mp3blaster
Package: libncurses4
Package: infocom
Package: hdlant
Ignoring libncurses4 and libncurses4-dev I make that 12 (of which strn,
moria, infocom and hdlant are in non-free/*)...of those at least ngs-js
and libjs0 are from the same source package.
I have done test-builds for jmon, liveice, netris, ngs-js, and libjs0.
Those packages at least have the dependency changed to libncurses5 with
just a rebuild, I have no reason to think the rest will be any
different.
It should not be a huge amount of work to rebuild these few packages
and upload them. What would be the procedure to get them rebuilt?
file bugs against the packages?
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Stephen Stafford
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