On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:39 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility?
http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html
seems to say libncurses.so.5 is the required one, will we lose LSB
compatibility if we start shipping libncurses.so.6 instead?
Upstream is doing that change; ncurses can't be forever stalled because
of LSB, you see. So, as far as I know, what will be needed is for the
LSB to be updated, at some point, and while this isn't done, and perhaps
for some time after that, distributions will need to keep on shipping
libncurses.so.5 along with .so.6, when LSB compatibility is needed.