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Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6



* Daniel Baumann:

> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> In that case: no, please fix your ncurses 6 package to provide a proper
>> transition path by adding Provides: libncurses5-dev.
>
> that won't work in all cases, the soname major changes for a reason.

And which is that?  I thought the ncurses ABI was pretty fixed.  It's
also part of LSB, isn't it?

(A pointer to the version you want to upload is sufficient.)


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