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Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6



Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 13:37 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit :
>   OR
> 
>   * introduce a ncurses5 source package. Then not all 400 packages need
>     to go into testing at the same time, they just can trickle as they
>     get built. This would be very good, *and* we'd work together with
>     you to ensure such source package disappears before Squeeze (we'd
>     w-b massage, you'd file bugs for FTBFS, and NMU as necessary). (¹)

Given that symbols in libncurses are not versioned, this looks like a
very dangerous thing to do. Even in other cases, you’re probably going
to run into crasher bugs in unstable, unless libncurses6 is made to
conflict with all libraries depending on libncurses5.

Cheers,
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