Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:21:44PM +0200, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> was heard to say:
> just a quick note: after lenny, ncurses will bump soname major from 5 to
> 6 in order to make mouse wheels work. The transition will be big, but
> can be entirely handled with binNMUs only and this is what this mail is
> about:
>
> There is no hurry, but please start using soname-independent
> build-depends on ncurses as 'libncurses-dev | libncurses5-dev' in your
> next uploads.
Sadly, this won't work for packages using libncursesw5 -- I got a
rather large number of hits when I grepped for ncursesw in the Sources
file for sid.
Daniel
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