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Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6



[Josselin Mouette]
> Yes, but that could be worked around by making libncurses6 conflict with
> libncurses5 (<< version.with.symbols).

That only works if you rebuild everything that uses ncurses5 so the
symbol _users_ know they are supposed to require versions.  (And, like
any proposal involving Debian-specific symbol versioning, it still
doesn't allow non-Debian binaries to run safely.)
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Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/


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