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Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6



On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:13:46AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> 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.

Then why are you asking maintainers to blindly change their build-depends to
point to it?

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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