Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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?

Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility?

http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html

seems to say libncurses.so.5 is the required one, will we lose LSB
compatibility if we start shipping libncurses.so.6 instead?

CCing debian-lsb.


Michael